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desert plant

noun

plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte

• Syn: ↑xerophyte, ↑xerophytic plant, ↑xerophile, ↑xerophilous plant

• Derivationally related forms: ↑xerophytic (for: ↑xerophyte)

• Hypernyms: ↑vascular plant, ↑tracheophyte

• Hyponyms: ↑agave, ↑century plant, ↑American aloe

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noun

: a plant suited to the environment of arid regions of little rainfall that often stores water in its tissues or hollow center and reduces transpiration by total or seasonal leaflessness or by a densely hairy, waxy, varnished, or otherwise modified leaf : a xerophilous plant

Useful english dictionary. 2012.