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单词 xerophyte
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Definition of xerophyte in English:

xerophyte

nounˈzɛrə(ʊ)fʌɪtˈzɪərə(ʊ)fʌɪtˈzɪrəˌfaɪt
Botany
  • A plant which needs very little water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • High stomatal frequencies are usually characteristic of leaves of xerophytes.
    • The relatively small and thick leaves, the multilayered mesophyll, the thick outermost epidermal cell walls and the small leaf ICS percentage of C. spinosa constitute features of xerophytes.
    • As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
    • Ferns generally lack some of the more typical adaptations of xerophytes, such as a thick hypodermis, sunken stomata, and CAM photosynthesis.
    • Indeed, this is the explanation offered by the classical and the majority of the modern textbooks on plant physiology or ecology especially when discussing adaptation of xerophytes to their habitat.

Derivatives

  • xerophytic

  • adjectiveˌzɪərə(ʊ)ˈfɪtɪk
    Botany
    • Particular attention was given to the spatial distribution of genetic variation, which could support the existence of a reservoir of genetic diversity for xerophytic vegetation in northwestern Venezuela.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Mean annual temperature is 20 • 8°C with a seasonal variation of 16 • 2°C, and a mean daily range of 20°C. Vegetation consists of xerophytic scrub or Chihuahuan Desert scrub.
      • A collection of cacti xerophytic plants - over 800 specimens - is exhibited in the nearby cactus house.
      • Haloxylon persicum is a stem-succulent xerophytic shrub, which only occurs in non-saline sandy deserts.
      • Exodermis with Casparian bands was found in roots of hydrophytic, mesophytic and xerophytic species and in members of primitive as well as advanced families.
 
 

Definition of xerophyte in US English:

xerophyte

nounˈzirəˌfītˈzɪrəˌfaɪt
Botany
  • A plant which needs very little water.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • High stomatal frequencies are usually characteristic of leaves of xerophytes.
    • Ferns generally lack some of the more typical adaptations of xerophytes, such as a thick hypodermis, sunken stomata, and CAM photosynthesis.
    • The relatively small and thick leaves, the multilayered mesophyll, the thick outermost epidermal cell walls and the small leaf ICS percentage of C. spinosa constitute features of xerophytes.
    • Indeed, this is the explanation offered by the classical and the majority of the modern textbooks on plant physiology or ecology especially when discussing adaptation of xerophytes to their habitat.
    • As she put names to the species around us - lovely names, like pickleweed and coyote melon, Mormon tea and mallow - I imagined them frizzling to extinction on the hillside, leaving a last few, spiny xerophytes to subsist on bare shale.
 
 
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