Sentence examples for xeric from inspiring English sources

Trees of dry (xeric), moist (mesic), and wet (hydric) habitats have leaves that are specifically adapted structurally and functionally to these habitats.

Tree leaves of mesic environments have a set of traits intermediate between xeric and hydric leaves.

Some anuran species living in xeric (dry) habitats, in which ephemeral ponds may exist for only a few weeks, develop and metamorphose within two to three weeks; however, most species require at least two months.

Amphibians occur widely throughout the world, even edging north of the Arctic circle in Eurasia; they are absent only in Antarctica, most remote oceanic islands, and extremely xeric (dry) deserts.

It was a literary desert: xeric, Mosaic.

But this fascinating, authoritative volume may seduce even the most casual browser into rolling around in Malpighian hairs, mamillated forms, petioloid tendencies and xeric habitats.

Even the specialist butchers I usually turn to in times of exotic meat shortage don't supply xuthus swallowtail or xeric ambersnail.

Old saguaros stand in gravel median strips and xeric yards like crucifixes of loss.

For gardeners that means the "X" word -- xeric, or water-wise, landscaping.