psammo-, psamm-, psamme-

(Greek: sand)

psammophyte

A plant that grows in sand or sandy soil.

psammophytes

Plants that grow best in or tolerate sand, particularly fine to medium sand.

psammophytic

psammosarcoma

A sarcoma or fleshy tumor with sand-like calcareous particles.

psammosere

A plant succession originating in a sandy area, as on sand dunes.

psammotherapy

The use of heated sand, or sand baths, to alleviate painful conditions.

psammous

Sandy.

psammurgical

A word meaning literally "pertaining to the working of (or in) sand"; an esoteric term in used in Alchemy.

psamosere

1. An ecological succession that begins in an environment of barren sand.
2. A sere (one stage in a sequence of events) originating on sand or sandy soil.

suprapsammon

1. Organisms swimming above sand that are dependent on it for food.
2. Aquatic organisms swimming above a sand substratum but deriving their food from the surface of that substratum.

uropsammus

Any inorganic or uratic urinary sediment.

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(Greek: sand)

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