tropophilous
Ecology
adjective
(Of a plant, tree, forest, etc.) adapted (often by being deciduous) to a climate characterized by alternating periods of wet and dry conditions.
Origin
Early 20th century; earliest use found in Benjamin Jackson (1846–1927). After German tropophil.
- membrance
- 'membrance
- membrane
- membrane bone
- membraned
- membrane filter
- membrane filtration
- membrane keypad
- membraneless
- membranella
- membranelle
- membrane of Reissner
- membraneous
- membrane potential
- membrane switch
- membranogenic
- membranoid
- membranology
- membranophone
- membranoproliferative
- membranous
- membranous dysmenorrhea
- membranous dysmenorrhoea
- membranous glomerulonephritis
- membranously