单词 | therophyte |
释义 | therophyten. Botany. (See quot. 1960.) ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > annual annual1633 hardy annual1706 tender annual1769 winter annual1857 semi-annual1882 therophyte1913 1913 Jrnl. Ecol. 1 18 Therophytes, or plants of the favourable season, live through the unfavourable season as seeds; hence they are annual plants. 1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. i. 13 Many communities of the subtropics begin their annual development with a therophyte aspect. 1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest i. 10 Therophytes are entirely absent, except in clearings. 1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iii. 93 Therophytes (annuals)..complete their life-cycle, from germination to ripe seed, within a single limited vegetative period, surviving the unfavourable times as seeds, spores, or other special (usually resistant) reproductive bodies. They are especially abundant in deserts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1913 |
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