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XEROPHILOUS PLANT

• XEROPHILOUS PLANT (noun)
The noun XEROPHILOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: XEROPHILOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

• XEROPHILOUS PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

desert plant; xerophile; xerophilous plant; xerophyte; xerophytic plant

Hypernyms ("xerophilous plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "xerophilous plant"):

agave; American aloe; 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)

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Useful links:
Meaning of agave
Definition of vascular plant
Pronunciation of American aloe
Definition of tracheophyte
Pronunciation of century plant

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