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Definition of Desert plant

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desert Plant

Literary usage of Desert plant

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Guidebook of the Western United States by Joseph Silas Diller (1915)
"A characteristic desert plant on the grade from Victorville to Cajon Pass, Cal. B. SAN GABRIEL MISSION, CAL. Founded by Padres Cambon and Somera under the ..."

2. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"desert plant SOCIETIES. I. Characters of True desert plants. 1053. The true desert plants are the perennials which must preserve stem and root system ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"desert plant SOCIETIES. I. Characters of True desert plants. 1053. The true desert plants are the perennials which must preserve stem and root system ..."

4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The desert plant shows the natural selection of adapted but rigid forms, while the amphibious plant shows the selection of the capacity to vary, ..."

5. First Year Science by William Henry Snyder (1914)
"From this desert plant some Indian tribes made their bread. ing period can ... TAVE DESERT. plant and therefore almost no animal life on the upper parts of ..."

6. Valuation of Public Service Corporations: Legal and Economic Phases of by Robert Harvey Whitten (1914)
"When the government came to establish its project on Salt River, it was deemed necessary to acquire this desert plant, together with the water rights of the ..."

7. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"Effects of wildfire on a Sonoran desert plant community. ... Ecology of the saguaro: I, the role of freezing weather in a warm-desert plant population. ..."

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