Sometimes adaptations to protect the plant during seasons of drought, such as the rolling up of the thallus in many xerophytic Marchantiales, can be recognized, but more often a prolonged dry season is survived in some resting state.
Later, in the middle and later Pliocene, the Madro-tertiary geoflora gave rise to the modern xerophytic plants that now characterize the desert vegetation of North America.
The habitat is xerophytic in the valley of the Rio Negro near Sacapulas.
The northern pygmy mouse, in general, lives in situations more xerophytic and more grassy than does the southern pygmy mouse.
It is well known that plants with xerophytic characteristics are not confined to dry climates; it is only necessary to mention halophytes, alpine plants and certain epiphytes.
Other grasses, particularly annual species, show their adaptation to xerophytic habits by forming bulbous store-houses at the base of the culms--e.
Lying in a rain shadow cast by the Tuxtlas and on sandy and well-drained soils is a dense xerophytic forest.
Central Ridges The vegetation of the central ridges of the isthmus is, for the most part, transitional between the tall rainforest of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the low xerophytic scrub forest of the semi-arid Pacific Coastal Plain.
Again, Knowlton says that red beds cannot indicate deserts because the plants found in them are not "pinched or depauperate, nor do they indicate xerophytic adaptations.
Not only do xerophytic desert species prevail, but halophytes are present in the salty areas, and hygrophytes in the wet swampy areas, while ordinary mesophytes prevail along the water courses and are washed down from the mountains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "xerophytic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
