mesocratic

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English

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Etymology

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From meso- +‎ -cratic.

Adjective

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mesocratic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.
  2. (mineralogy) Neither leucocratic nor melanocratic; having a more or less even mixture of light and dark constituents.

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mesocratic (uncountable)

  1. (ecology) The second stage of interglacial forest development (Early-Temperate), characterized by a transitional mix of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species.
    • 1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:
      Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic, telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.
    • 1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:
      Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..
    • 2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76:
      The fully developed mesocratic woodland had a somewhat different character..

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