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hygrophilous, a. Ecol.|haɪˈgrɒfɪləs|
[ad. Fr. hygrophile (J. Thurmann Essai de Phytostatique (1849) I. 268), f. hygro- + Gr. ϕίλος loving.]
Of plants: growing in a moist environment. Also ˈhygrophile n., a plant of this type.
1863J. G. Baker N. Yorksh. 189 Characteristically hygrophilous plants in the floras of the drainage districts. 1878A. Henfrey Elem. Bot. (ed. 3) iv. i. 661 Plants are divided into Xerophiles, or those capable of existing in very dry climates; Hygrophiles, or those which can only exist in the presence of abundant moisture. 1883F. Townsend Flora Hampsh. 497 Hygrophilous or moisture-loving plants thrive on eugeogenous soils. 1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. i. iii. 260 The Rain-forest is evergreen, hygrophilous in character, at least thirty meters high. 1914M. Drummond tr. Haberlandt's Physiol. Plant Anat. viii. 439 The degree of development of this tissue..at once shows whether any given plant is distinctly hygrophilous or xerophilous in character. 1934H. Gilbert-Carter tr. Raunkiaer's Life Forms of Plants viii. 321 More or less hygrophilous communities are succeeded by mesophilous woods of oak and beech. 1957P. Dansereau Biogeogr. iv. 206 Hygrophilous plants are ‘moisture-loving’. |