Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, characterized by, or adapted to a moderately moist habitat.

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  • adjective biology Moist.
  • adjective biology, of an organism Adapted to a moist habitat.
  • adjective physics Of or pertaining to mesons; mesonic.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to a meson
  • adjective having or characterized by moderate or a well-balanced supply of moisture

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek μέσος (mesos). Compare with xeric and hydric.

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From mes(on) +‎ -ic.

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Examples

  • Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types.

    Wildflower hunting in Durango 2008

  • Soils have frigid or cryic temperature regimes, in contrast to the mesic temperature regime of soils in Ecoregion 4a.

    Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA) 2009

  • Cryic soils support mixed coniferous forests dominated by mountain hemlock, lodgepole pine, and Pacific silver fir; they are colder than the mesic and frigid soils of the Southern Cascades (4f).

    Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA) 2009

  • The soil temperature regimes are mesic and thermic inland, mesic on the rolling hills between the Santa Rosa plain and the Pacific Ocean, and isomesic along the coast.

    Coastal Hills - Santa Rosa Plain 2009

  • •Mixed oak forests and beech-oak forests are native to the mesic uplands of the Inner Coastal Plain (84d); sugar maple and red oak trees are rare or absent in these forests, but are common in the mesic upland forests of Ecoregions 58, 64, and 67.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

  • It is distinct from the Appalachian oak forest that dominated the mesic uplands of Ecoregion 84d, and the northern cordgrass prairie that occurs along tidal channels in Ecoregion 84c.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

  • •Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d.

    Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA) 2009

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  • I savor the insult that’s sly,

    That risks slipping unnoticed by,

    But humor that’s ethnic

    Is rather too mesic.

    Martinis and jokes I like dry.

    February 27, 2018