Xerophilous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Flourishing in or adapted to a dry hot environment.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Being able to thrive in dry weather.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In recent usage correlated with xerophyte and equivalent to xerophytic, properly in sense 1: first used by Thurmann (1849), who regarded xerophilous plants as correlated with dysgeogenous soils. See quotation under silicicolous.
  • Loving dryness: in botany noting plants which are in various ways peculiarly adapted to dry, especially to hot and dry climates, as by possessing coriaceous leaves, succulent stems, etc.; specifically, belonging to the group of xerophils. See xerophil.
    • Word Usage
    "Forest remnants consist primarily of Quercus persica and, up to an elevation of 2,400m, xerophilous forest of Quercus spp., hawthorn (Crataegus), almond (Prunus amygdalus), nettle tree (Celtis) and pear (Pyrus spp) predominates."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    drought-loving   
     
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