xerosphere
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]xerosphere (plural xerospheres)
- A region with extremely arid conditions; a desert environment.
- 1984, The Daffodil Journal - Volumes 21-22, page 136:
- We do use the latter across the brook where they make a "lawn" on a rock on rock lateral moraine under big sugar maples, and where absolutely nothing else will grow but the invading pioneers of the xerosphere such as brambles.
- 2001 April 13, Don K., “What Would You Do?”, in misc.consumers.frugal-living (Usenet):
- What about a xerosphere? Be the first on your block to fill the yard with sand, rocks and ocotillo.
- 2009, Rajan Kumar Gupta, Mukesh Kumar, Deepak Vyas, Soil microflora, page 252:
- They are the pioneer colonizers both in hydrosphere and xerosphere and occupy the base of the trophic pyramid.