NOUN
- land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte
How To Use mesophyte In A Sentence
- A higher mesophyll resistance in woody plants than in herbs, and in sclerophylls than in mesophytes, has been reported.
- The plants that are adapted for living in these habitats are called xerophytes, mesophytes, and hydrophytes, respectively.
- Interestingly, unlike mesophytes, none of the hydrophytes showed ability to accumulate proline.
- The values measured lie within the mainstream range for bryophytes of similar habitats and of vascular mesophytes.
- A higher mesophyll resistance in woody plants than in herbs, and in sclerophylls than in mesophytes, has been reported.
- A higher mesophyll resistance in woody plants than in herbs, and in sclerophylls than in mesophytes, has been reported.
- According to these considerations, the factor of light appears as the first of many different environmental factors for the ecological plant sociology of mesophytes.
- Consequently, cuticles of plant species adapted to dry conditions have, by one to two orders of magnitude, lower permeances for water than cuticles of mesophytes from more humid climates.