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Definition of Phanerophytes
1. phanerophyte [n] - See also: phanerophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phanerophytes
Literary usage of Phanerophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
""But from the standpoint of the formation, the phanerophytes, or trees, dominate
by their size wherever one finds them. In spite of the inferiority in ..."
2. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1918)
"We at once see that the life-forms in question (evergreen phanerophytes and ...
in number of species, constituting from 58 to 80% of the phanerophytes and ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"... manifest in more than 3000 species, and the small number of large phanerophytes
which is far below the average in contrast with the abundance of lianas, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1916)
"... (such as xerophytes, hydrophytes) and in growth forms (trees, shrubs, lianes)
or in the types suggested first by Raunkiaer. namely, the phanerophytes, ..."
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