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plant name pronunciation



  Regarding the pronunciation of "hygrophilla", my copy of _Dictionary of 
Plant Names_ by Allen J. Coombes says that the pronunciation is

    hi-GRO-fi-la and the roots of the word are hygros (moist) and

philos (loving) for obvious reasons.

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