Letter X

Xeric

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Characterized by a scanty supply of moisture (or tolerating or adapted to dry conditions).</P> The word 'xeric' is derived from 'xeros,' the Greek word for 'dry.' 'Xeric' was coined in 1926 and was in common scientific usage by the 1940s.

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