Definitions

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

  • noun A land plant that grows in an environment having a moderate amount of moisture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant which is adapted to live under conditiona of medium moisture and dryness; a plant intermediate between the hydrophytes and the xerophytes.
  • noun Same as mesophytum.

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  • noun botany Any normal terrestrial plant that grows in environments having an average supply of water

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun land plant growing in surroundings having an average supply of water; compare xerophyte and hydrophyte

Etymologies

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meso- + -phyte

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