xerophyte

Questions about xerophyte

What does xerophyte mean?

xerophyte means "plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte".

How many syllables are in xerophyte?

xerophyte has 3 syllables and divides as xe-ro-phyte 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.

What is another word for xerophyte?

Close synonyms include desert plant, xerophytic plant, xerophile, xerophilous plant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is xerophyte a common word?

xerophyte 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.