Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, characterized by, or adapted to a moderately moist habitat.
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- adjective physics Of or pertaining to
mesons ;mesonic . - adjective biology
Moist . - adjective biology, of an organism Adapted to a moist habitat.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or pertaining to a meson
- adjective having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types.
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One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region.
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One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region.
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Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types.
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Soils have frigid or cryic temperature regimes, in contrast to the mesic temperature regime of soils in Ecoregion 4a.
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Cryic soils support mixed coniferous forests dominated by mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, and Pacific silver fir; they are colder than the mesic and frigid soils of the Southern Cascades (4f).
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The soil temperature regimes are mesic and thermic inland, mesic on the rolling hills between the Santa Rosa plain and the Pacific Ocean, and isomesic along the coast.
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Mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests are native to the mesic uplands of the Inner Coastal Plain (84d); sugar maple and red oak trees are rare or absent in these forests, but are common in the mesic upland forests of Ecoregions 58, 64, and 67.
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It is distinct from the Appalachian oak forest that dominated the mesic uplands of Ecoregion 84d, and the northern cordgrass prairie that occurs along tidal channels in Ecoregion 84c.
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Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d.
qms commented on the word mesic
I savor the insult that’s sly,
That risks slipping unnoticed by,
But humor that’s ethnic
Is rather too mesic.
Martinis and jokes I like dry.
February 27, 2018