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Definition of Halophytic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halophytic
Literary usage of Halophytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Grasses of Iowa by Louis Hermann Pammel, Julius Buel Weems, Carleton Roy Ball, F. Lamson-Scribner, Harry Foster Bain (1904)
"halophytic plants, of course, are such as are adapted to salt marshes and alkaline
places, and in respect to their need of water and protection, ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1915)
"In short, we may say that the vegetation of our shore is distinctly halophytic.
Even in our coastal dunes species with distinct halophytic characters are ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Warming (1909: 220) quotes Griffon (1898), to the effect that " the assimilatory
activity U leu in the halophytic form than in the ordinary form of the same ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The vegetation of the oceans and salt seas and lakes, as well as that along their
marshy shores, represents the greater part of the halophytic vegetation of ..."
5. Bulletin by Iowa Geological Survey, University of Texas Mineral Survey (1904)
"halophytic. A close study of the structure of halophytes indicates that these
... halophytic plants, of course, are such as are adapted to salt marshes and ..."
6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"halophytic Associations, the authors state, have been only inadequately studied.
There is a sort of halophytic savanna near the coast in which the most ..."
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