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Definition of Mesophytic
1. Adjective. Being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment. "Mesophytic plants"
Definition of Mesophytic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mesophytic
Literary usage of Mesophytic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"Forest appears on rock, sand, clay, etc., first as shrubs or scattered trees,
later as dense mesophytic forest. In the region about Chicago we have forest ..."
2. Bulletin of the Geographic Society of Chicago by Geographic Society of Chicago (1913)
"CHAPTER XII ANIMAL COMMUNITIES OF DRY AND mesophytic FORESTS I. INTRODUCTION The
forest communities discussed in the preceding chapters are those displacing ..."
3. The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan by Henry Chandler Cowles (1899)
"Both slopes have a mesophytic soil ; the leeward slope also has ... mesophytic air,
but the windward slope has a xerophytic air. ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (1909)
"... mist and rock substratum these wandering mesophytic plants are compelled to
undergo a variety of structural modifications already alluded to in another ..."
5. The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families by Chandler Belden Beach, Frank Morton McMurry (1917)
"gated and made mesophytic. In contrast with hydrophytes and xerophytes, the meso-
phytes are far richer in leaf-forms. All of the societies which man has ..."
6. Monitoring Bird Populations by Point Counts edited by C. John Ralph, John R. Sauer, Sam Droege (1998)
"Results Count Duration Ten-minute counts were insufficient in both mixed- mesophytic
and beech-maple forests to record all species and individuals that ..."
7. Floral Succession in the Prairie-grass Formation of Southeastern South Dakota by Le Roy Harris Harvey (1908)
"distribution, occurring gregariously at the base of slopes and in mesophytic
depressions; frequently outlying individuals are found. ..."
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