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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant adapted to climatic conditions in which periods of heavy rainfall alternate with periods of drought.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, a plant suited to a climate alternately damp and dry or cold (the effect of cold being similar to that of dryness): used by Schimper (1898) in place of mesophyte (Warming), but with different connotation.
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- noun biology Any
plant that lives in an environment in which heavyrainfall alternates with periods ofdrought
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek τροπή ("turning") + -phyte
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