ombrophilen.adj.
/ˈɒmbrə(ʊ)fʌɪl/, U.S. /ˈɑmbroʊˌfaɪl/ A. n.
An ombrophilous plant.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [noun] > that likes moisture or marsh plant > flourishing or not flourishing in wet conditions
ombrophoby1896
ombrophile1897
ombrophobe1897
ombrophily1903
1897 J. C. Willis Man. Flowering Plants I. 153 Wiesner..divides plants into ombrophiles, which can undergo without injury long-continued rain, and ombrophobes, whose leaves soon decay or fall off under such circumstances.
1983 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 70 567/2 There have developed some annual summer ombrophiles in the flora that are characteristic of the eastern central Asian desert.
B. adj.
= ombrophilous adj.1 1.
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the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > that thrives or does not thrive in moisture
fenny1543
plashy1822
inundatal1847
paludal1847
hygrophilous1863
uliginal1863
xerophilous1863
uliginose1866
xerophil1884
ombrophilous1895
ombrophobic1895
ombrophobous1895
xerophytic1897
sclerophyllous1903
xeromorphic1909
hydrarch1913
xerarch1913
ombrophile1924
sclerophyll1926
hygrophytic1936
xerophilic1961
1924 Jrnl. Ecol. 12 104 Readings of the transpiration showed that similarly to the ombrophile mesophytes, Impatiens loses comparatively small quantities of water.
1939 Jrnl. Ecol. 27 238 The forests of the Belgian Congo are distinguished as ‘ombrophile’ and ‘tropophile’. The former are the forests proper, and comprise two types.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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