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They can be found in areas with monsoons or in xerophilous areas, many of them live in desert or semidesert regions.— CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
Still the flora outside the Hills and the submontane tract is predominantly of the desert type, being xerophilous or drought-resisting.— The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
In this connexion it is noteworthy that so many of the higher forms are adapted as bulbous geophytes, or as aerophytes to special xerophilous conditions.— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1

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