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Definition of Hydrophytic
1. Adjective. Growing wholly or partially in water. "Water lilies are hydrophytic"
Definition of Hydrophytic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hydrophytic
Literary usage of Hydrophytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1913)
"ΠIN THE hydrophytic AREA. BY RAYMOND C. OSBURN, NEW YORK, NY Very few of the
Syrphidae actually live in the water at any time of the life cycle, ..."
2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"hydrophytic Plants. The different adaptational groups of plants may be best ...
Out of fourteen classes of hydrophytic plants described by Eugene Warming, ..."
3. Research Methods in Ecology by Frederic Edward Clements (1905)
"hydrophytic types. Hydrophytes permit a fairly sharp division into three groups,
based primarily upon the relation of the leaf surface to the two media, ..."
4. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan by Henry Chandler Cowles (1899)
"hydrophytic beaches, partly perhaps because hydrophytic beaches are seldom ...
The hydrophytic beaches are found where the gradient of the lake bottom is ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The hydrophytic plant societies are essentially all edaphic, that is, they are
conditioned by local causes. In this respect there is a wide contrast as ..."
6. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"Common illustrations of hydrophytic plant societies are swamps of all kinds, pond
societies, and ocean plants. Various classes of hydrophytes are taken up ..."
7. Report (1905)
"The shrub zone rarely reaches the water's edge, but the stream is bordered by
herbs and more hydrophytic plants, as Conocephalus, which also grow on the wet ..."
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