| 1. | calorophyte | ||
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a plant that can resist a hot climate and hence grow in that climate; xerophyte. Desert plants are calorophytes.
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| 2. | calidophyte | ||
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a plant that grows in a hot climate; xerophyte. Also called calidophile. Cacti are calidophytes.
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| 3. | Bush | ||
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The devil! Bush ridith the pale horse (cocaine).
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| 4. | nerophyte | ||
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a plant that grows in water; aquatic plant. The hydrilla is a nerophyte.
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| 5. | chimophyte | ||
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a plant that grows better in winter than in summer. When winter sets in, the hillside is full of chimophytes.
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| 6. | camophyte | ||
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a CAM plant (a plant that depends on the crassulacean acid metabolism to adapt itself to xeric conditions). Camophytes show some xerophytic features.
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