xeric in English

adjective
1
(of an environment or habitat) containing little moisture; very dry.
The southern transect spanned principally xeric habitats, whereas the eastern crossed mesic forest.

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1. Deserts provide xeric environments.

2. This plant is adapted to a xeric environment.

3. Amaranth is a drought-tolerant crop which makes it ideal for xeric gardens

4. Aridisols dominate the deserts and xeric shrublands, which occupy about one third of the Earth's land surface

5. Aridisols dominate the deserts and xeric shrublands, which occupy about one third of the Earth's land surface

6. I saw fear in their faces, because they didn't know what the xeric was going to be.

7. Xeric plants have great vitality, has a unique beauty, they are Chen Shan Botanical Garden a beautiful landscape.

8. Aridisol (Noun) A soil of the kind that dominates deserts and xeric shrublands, having a very low concentration of organic matter and little water

9. Indeed, Cacti are ideal xeric plants and will greatly enhance any landscape planting by adding colorful flowers and a year-round structural element with their handsome evergreen stems

10. Franco) seedlings from xeric and mesic environments was sampled during two induced, consecutive, drought cycles to determine relationships among leaf resistance, plant water potential, and abscisic acid (ABA) concentration.

11. Aridisol meaning Filters (0) (US soil taxonomy) A soil of the kind that dominates deserts and xeric shrublands , having a very low concentration of organic matter and little water .

12. Environments subject to Arid climates tend to lack vegetation and are called xeric or desertic.Most "Arid" climates straddle the Equator; these places include parts of Africa, Asia, South America, North America, and Australia.

13. Aridisols (or desert soils) are a soil order in USA soil taxonomy.Aridisols (from the Latin aridus, for “dry”) form in an arid or semi-arid climate.Aridisols dominate the deserts and xeric shrublands, which occupy about one third of the Earth's land surface.Aridisols have a very low concentration of organic matter, reflecting the paucity of vegetative production on these dry soils.