Noun:

பாலைத் தாவரம்,

xerophyte தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

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xerophyte's Usage Examples:

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

Plants which are hygrophytes during some favorl part of the year and xerophytes during the rest of the year; ~.

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

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.

Such terms as hydrophytes, xerophytes, and halophytes had been used by plant geographers before Warmings time e.

It is only in a general sense like Schimpers that such ecological terms as xerophytes have any value; and it is not possible, at least at present, to frame ecological classes, which shall have a high scientific value, on a basis of this nature.

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.

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.

Many xerophytes are hairy or have sunken stomata which may be further protected by partial plugs of wax:Like a sunken object freed from the ocean floor, Dean began to ascend to the surface of wakefulness.

The transpiring surface of xerophytes is frequently reduced.

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.

Hydro-xerophytes (bog xerophytes) .

Synonyms:

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

Antonyms:

deciduous plant, evergreen plant, cultivated plant, weed,