单词 | ombrophobous |
释义 | ombrophobousadj. Botany. Of a plant: intolerant to prolonged rainfall. Also: (of leaves) not easily wetted (rare). ΘΚΠ 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 1895 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 194 Plants which, on the one hand are uninjured (ombrophilous) and on the other hand are injured (ombrophobous) by excessive rainfall. 1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. i. i. 2 Ombrophilous foliage is capable of being wetted, ombrophobous foliage is unwettable. 1903 W. R. Fisher tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. i. i. 2 Xerophytes perish after two or three days of continuous rain; they are rain-avoiding, ombrophobous, whereas hygrophytes are, as a rule, ombrophilous. 1920 Jrnl. Ecol. 8 98 The gradual segregation of those species which can develop into forest trees, with elimination of the ombrophobous shrubbery element. 1992 Bryologist 95 161 Both species [of lichen] grow in coastal saxicolous ombrophobous communities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1895 |
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