Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A plant adapted to surviving with little water.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In phytogeography, a plant adapted to live under conditions of small available moisture.
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- noun botany Any
plant suited for life in ahabitat wherewater isscarce , such as in adesert orchaparral . Such plants may besucculent , have small orreduced leaves , orspines . - noun A
desert plant
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte
Etymologies
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Examples
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Shrub steppe is also common in this ecoregion comprised of xerophyte shrub and tree species of Spiraea, Caragana, Amygdalus, Lonicera.
Kazakh steppe 2008
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The relicts of the xerophyte vegetation of Beringia in the Northeastern Asia.
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Another leafless Asclepiad, Periploca aphylla, which extends westwards to Arabia and Nubia and southwards to Sindh, is, like Boucerosia, a typical xerophyte adapted to a very dry soil and atmosphere.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir James McCrone Douie 1894
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The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
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