Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, characterized by, or adapted to an extremely dry habitat.
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- adjective Said of an environment or habitat that is extremely
dry , lacking humidity and water. - adjective Said of an organism
adapted tolive in a very dryhabitat .
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- adjective being deficient in moisture
Etymologies
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Examples
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She said more "xeric" plant species - ones that use less water - are available but they are deciduous, which means they drop leaves in the summer, or they are cactuses or succulents.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2009
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She said more "xeric" plant species - ones that use less water - are available but they are deciduous, which means they drop leaves in the summer, or they are cactuses or succulents.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2009
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In this post-apocalyptic diorama, they sleep swallowed in whatever clothes and blankets they own to avoid freezing to death; they cook in tin cans; their women bleed to death giving birth; their children die of diseases the modern world thought eradicated; their men are despondent; weather permitting, they trek over xeric dirt roads and down jarring mountain slopes for countless hours and miles to reach a paved road.
Global Voices in English » Blogging About Poverty And Development In The Arab World 2009
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Tagged: Calvin and Hobbes · comic books · comic strips · Drawn and Quarterly · Fantagraphics · graphic novels · indie · Six by 6 · top shelf · xeric
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It's on a hillside and has incredible diversity and is xeric.
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The southern delineation follows the transition to moist forests and the northern delineation the transition to xeric desert.
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Municipalities and water utilities want people to go xeric, offering "cash-for-grass" incentives to homeowners who replace lawns with low-water-use gardens.
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Northern limits of this ecoregion are the xeric habitats of the Guajira area and dry forests of the Sinú Valley.
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Soil slightly hilled around a spiraling path of stone serves as raised flower beds to help encourage drainage -- a critical element in xeric garden design, so that roots of dryness-loving plants don't sit in water.
Giving Up On Grass 2010
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Many xeric principles are simply common sense: Choose native plants rather than exotics, which can sometimes need lots of extra hosing.
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June 26, 2009