Inhabiting, growing, or produced in a fen. Now only of plants.

Growing in plashes or wet ground. Obsolete.

Of plants: growing in areas subject to flooding.

More generally: of or relating to a marsh or fen, marshy; (of a plant) growing in marshy ground, requiring a marshy habitat.

Of plants: growing in a moist environment.

Growing in moist or wet ground.

adapted to a dry climate or habitat, or to conditions of scanty available moisture.

Botany. = uliginal, adj.

a xerophilous plant.

Botany. Of a plant: able to withstand prolonged rainfall. Also: (of leaves) easily wetted (rare).

= ombrophobous, adj.

Of a plant: intolerant to prolonged rainfall. Also: (of leaves) not easily wetted (rare).

pertaining to or having the character of a xerophyte, xerophilous.

Pertaining to or designating woody evergreen plants having leaves that are hard and tough, and usually small and thick, so reducing the rate of…

Of a succession of plant communities: having its origin in a watery habitat.

Of a plant succession: having its origin in a dry habitat.

= ombrophilous, adj.1 1.

= sclerophyllous, adj.

= xerophilous adj.