phytosociologicaladj.
/ˌfʌɪtəʊsəʊʃ(ɪ)əˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, /ˌfʌɪtəʊsəʊsɪəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌsoʊsiəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/, /ˈˌfaɪdoʊˌsoʊʃ(i)əˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/ Of or relating to phytosociology.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > botany > [adjective] > specific branches or aspects
phytognomical1653
phytogeographic1857
phytochemical1858
phytogeographical1859
geobotanical1880
palaeobotanical1883
palaeophytological1885
phytobiological1887
phytopathological1887
geobotanic1888
palaeobotanic1889
floristic1898
phytosociological1922
1922 Jrnl. Ecol. 10 245 This paper represents an attempt to fix, in the French language, with German equivalents, a precise vocabulary of the phytosociological terms most frequently employed.
1928 Jrnl. Ecol. 16 18 The establishment of ecological series of spruce communities gives us a clear idea of the phytosociological and genetical relations between these communities.
1974 Nature 24 May 307/3 Bushmeat species are remarkably resistant to infections that kill domestic stock, and they seldom destroy the phytosociological structure of their habitats.
2001 Africa (Nexis) 71 191 By concisely analysing historical sources, oral and archival, and comparing them with phytosociological and remote-sensing techniques, it reveals how completely the origins of most if not of all forest islands has been misunderstood.
Derivatives
phytosocioˈlogically adv. from a phytosociological point of view.
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the world > plants > botany > [adverb] > specific branches or aspects
palaeobotanically1902
floristically1909
phytosociologically1928
1928 Jrnl. Ecol. 16 6 This community is..distinguished phytosociologically by a somewhat lesser influence of the spruce on the rest of the vegetation.
1969 Nature 19 Apr. 242/2 Specialized communities..are phytosociologically distinct.
1999 Diversity & Distributions 5 130/2 Phytosociologically all forest patches belong to the Violo-Quercetum roboris..with very small fragments of alder car (Alnetea) communities on wet sites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1922