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Definition of Hygrophytes
1. hygrophyte [n] - See also: hygrophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hygrophytes
Literary usage of Hygrophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Climatic and edaphic xerophytes, hygrophytes, ... Correlations among xerophytes
of different habitats, in. hygrophytes. ..."
2. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"Many hygrophytes, especially those that inhabit the moistest situations, ...
hygrophytes show a variety of arrangements to favour transpiration such as ..."
3. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"Hence arises the distinction between Xerophytes on the one hand, and hygrophytes
on the other. This contrast is shown not only in minute structural features ..."
4. Lessons in Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"The hygrophytes; plants which love damp situations, or grow in damp or wet situations.
They possess means for giving off water, or for ready transpiration; ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"Hydathodes, usually more characteristic of hygrophytes, are found in some of
these species. In general, the increasing ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1901)
"... attempts to divide plants into hygrophytes, those on which the transpiration
current must be aided ; xerophytes, in which the transpiration current must ..."
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