different between trophophyte vs tropophyte

English

tropho- +? -phyte

trophophyte (plural trophophytes)

(botany) A plant which behaves as hydrophyte in the rainy season and a xerophyte in the dry season.

From German Tropophyt. Surface reading of tropo- (“changeable”) +? -phyte (“plant”).

tropophyte (plural tropophytes)

(biology) Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought

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