| 单词 | xerophile |
| 释义 | xerophile (once / 11819311 pages) n WORD FAMILY xerophile: xerophiles USAGE EXAMPLESOwing to the dry soil, xerophiles largely prevail over hygrophiles. New, E. H. (Edmund Hort), Hertfordshire(2010) n plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte Syn|Hypo|Hyper desert plant, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plant American aloe, agave, century plant tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fiber Agave americana, American agavewidely cultivated American monocarpic plant with greenish-white flowers on a tall stalk; blooms only after ten to twenty years and then dies Agave sisalana, sisalMexican or West Indian plant with large fleshy leaves yielding a stiff fiber used in e.g. rope Agave cantala, cantala, magueyPhilippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine Agave atrovirens, magueyMexican plant used especially for making pulque which is the source of the colorless Mexican liquor, mescal Agave tequilanaMexican plant used especially for making tequila dracaenaan agave that is often cultivated for its decorative foliage Nolina microcarpa, bear grassstemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico bowstring hemp, sansevieriagrown as a houseplant for its mottled fleshy sword-shaped leaves or as a source of fiber tracheophyte, vascular plant green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms |
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