Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, characterized by, or adapted to an extremely dry habitat.
Wiktionary
- adj. Said of an environment or habitat that is extremely dry, lacking humidity and water.
- adj. Said of an organism adapted to live in a very dry habitat.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being deficient in moisture
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek ξηρός (ksēros, "dry"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“She said more "xeric" plant species - ones that use less water - are available but they are deciduous, which means they drop leaves in the summer, or they are cactuses or succulents.”
“Tagged: Calvin and Hobbes · comic books · comic strips · Drawn and Quarterly · Fantagraphics · graphic novels · indie · Six by 6 · top shelf · xeric”
“In this post-apocalyptic diorama, they sleep swallowed in whatever clothes and blankets they own to avoid freezing to death; they cook in tin cans; their women bleed to death giving birth; their children die of diseases the modern world thought eradicated; their men are despondent; weather permitting, they trek over xeric dirt roads and down jarring mountain slopes for countless hours and miles to reach a paved road.”
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“Municipalities and water utilities want people to go xeric, offering "cash-for-grass" incentives to homeowners who replace lawns with low-water-use gardens.”
“Soil slightly hilled around a spiraling path of stone serves as raised flower beds to help encourage drainage -- a critical element in xeric garden design, so that roots of dryness-loving plants don't sit in water.”
“Many xeric principles are simply common sense: Choose native plants rather than exotics, which can sometimes need lots of extra hosing.”
“It's on a hillside and has incredible diversity and is xeric.”
“The southern delineation follows the transition to moist forests and the northern delineation the transition to xeric desert.”
“Northern limits of this ecoregion are the xeric habitats of the Guajira area and dry forests of the Sinú Valley.”
“This arid region lies between two xeric scrub habitats, and has as its northern and eastern limits as the Caribbean Sea.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘xeric’.
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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phrontistery-x
from phrontistery.info
xyston, xystus, xystarch, xylotomous, xyster, xylorimba, xylotherapy, xylopolist, xylophory, xylophilous, xylophagous, xylometer and 82 more...
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Dudgeon and Dragging
They're not actually from fantasy or science fiction writing, but they certainly sound as though they could have been...
sourcender, zargari, glycyrrhizin, shibboleth, dyschezia, physiocrat, elastomer, skellefteälven, guadalquivir, alluvion, pentacrinite, hydrophyte and 22 more...
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phrontistery-x
from phrontistery.info
xanthareel, xanthic, xanthippe, xanthocarpous, xanthochroia, xanthochroic, xanthocomic, xanthocyanopsy, xanthoderm, xanthodont, xanthoma, xanthometer and 82 more...
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Verba Dilecta
delectable, notate, pauciloquy, paucity, pauciloquent, paucify, interscapilium, uropygium, inferna, nota, equipollent, prepollent and 677 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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-ic ending
Words ending in ic, tic or nic.
clastic, elastic, caustic, spastic, frantic, lactic, moronic, ironic, panic, doric, diplomatic, bureaucratic and 202 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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epeolatrist's list
epeolatry, syzygy, sphallolalia, lucubration, lugubrious, cacology, mellifluous, tmesis, synecdoche, anathema, eschatological, razbliuto and 349 more...
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Favorite Words
quixotic, assonance, palindrome, plebeian, mezzanine, propinquity, etymology, antihero, intrepid, refractions, lawless, sesquipedalian and 237 more...
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Uncle John’s Interesting Words
Words I find interesting.
abecedarius, acomoclitic, aperçu, apophenia, aspic, bêtise, bhang, callipygian, calque, carking, cataphract, ceruminous and 97 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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