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xerophytes's Usage Examples:

Whilst Schimper objected to the constitution of a special category, such as mesophytes, to include all plants which are neither pronounced xerophytes nor pronounced hygrophytes, he recognized the necessity of a third class in which to place those Schuuw, Grundtraek til en almindelig Plantegeografie (Kjbbenhavn, 1822); German trans., Grundzuge einer allegemeinen Pflanzengeographie (Berlin, I 823).

They are eminently dry-country plants (xerophytes); the narrow leaves are protected from loss of water by a thick cuticle, and have a well-developed sheath which embraces the stem and forms, with the sheaths of the other leaves of the rosette, a basin in which water collects, with fragments of rotting leaves and the like.

bog xerophytes), or that the physical drought of summer is unfavourable to shade-loving plants.

Bog Xerophytes live in the peaty soil of fens and moors which are physically wet, but which are said to be physiologically dry.

Schimper used the term xerophytes to include plants which live in soils which are physiologically dry, and the term hygrophytes those which live in soils which are physiologically wet or damp. Schimper recognized that the two classes are connected by transitional forms, and that it is useless to attempt to give the matter a statistical basis.

Many xerophytes are hairy or have sunken stomata which may be further protected by partial plugs of wax:

The criticisms were directed chiefly to the inclusion of sand dune plants among halophytes, to the exclusion of halophytes from xerophytes, to the inclusion of bog xerophytes among hydrophytes, to the inclusion of all conifers among xerophytes and of all deciduous trees among mesophytes, and to the group of mesophytes in general.

For instance, some xerophytes are dry and hard in structure, whilst others are succulent and fleshy.

The stems of some xerophytes, e.g.

The transpiring surface of xerophytes is frequently reduced.

xerophytes's Meaning':

plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte

Synonyms:

xerophile, xerophytic plant, agave, American aloe, century plant, xerophilous plant, vascular plant, tracheophyte, desert plant,

Antonyms:

deciduous plant, evergreen plant, cultivated plant, weed,