Living or growing in mud. Now rare.

Growing on dry exposed soils. Cf. glareous, adj. b.

Botany. (See quot. 1866.)

Growing or living in sand or sandy soil.

That grows best in calcareous soil. Hence as n., a calcicole plant.

That grows or thrives on clay or mud; clay-loving.

growing, or adapted to grow, in saline conditions.

Of plants: Growing in salt-impregnated soil.

Growing or living in sand or sandy soil; = psammophilous, adj.

Of a plant: thriving on a soil rich in gypsum; formerly used in reference to limestone soils (cf. calcicolous adj. at calcicole, adj. derivatives).

Of a plant, lichen, or fungus: growing best in soils or on substrates rich in nitrogen.

= calcifuge, adj.

Not suited by calcareous soil; that grows best in acid soil. Hence as n., a calcifuge plant.

Of a plant: well suited to calcareous soil.

(see quot. 1952).

= psammophilous, adj.

= nitrophilous, adj.