mesophytic

1. 1.

   being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment

   “mesophytic habitats”

   “mesophytic plants”

   Similarmesic

Questions about mesophytic

What does mesophytic mean?

mesophytic means "being or growing in or adapted to a moderately moist environment".

How many syllables are in mesophytic?

mesophytic has 4 syllables and divides as me-so-phy-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is mesophytic a common word?

mesophytic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.