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Definition of Hygrophilous
1. Adjective. (context: of a plant) adapted for growth in a damp or wet environment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hygrophilous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hygrophilous
Literary usage of Hygrophilous
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)
"hygrophilous structure. Removal of superfluous water : dripping points, hydathodes.
iv. ... hygrophilous ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1915)
"The hygrophilous association of the Piedmont Plateau is of relatively subordinate
importance owing to the limited extent of permanently moist lands. ..."
3. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"They secure this change either by shedding their hygrophilous leaves; or by dying
down to the ground as a whole; or, as in evergreens, by developing shoots ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1915)
"The vegetation of ravines and ridges presents in a most striking manner the
effects of erosion topography, that of the former being strongly hygrophilous ..."
5. Observations of a Naturalist in the Pacific Between 1896 and 1899 by Henry Brougham Guppy (1906)
"(6) This distinction between the xerophilous and hygrophilous habits penetrates
deeply into all questions connected with stations, and lies behind all ..."
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