nanophanerophyten.
/ˌnanə(ʊ)ˈfan(ə)rə(ʊ)fʌɪt/, U.S. /ˌnænoʊˈfænərəˌfaɪt/ Botany.
A shrub or subshrub between 25 cm and 2 metres (approx. 10 and 80 inches) in height, bearing its resting buds above the surface of the soil.
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nanophanerophyte1907
phanerophyte1907
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1907 H. C. Cowles in Bot. Gaz. 44 392 The phanerophytes..may be much subdivided: according to size into mega-, meso-, micro-, and nanophanerophytes.
1932 G. D. Fuller & H. S. Conard tr. J. Braun-Blanquet Plant Sociol. xii. 293 The round, woody cushions..are not to be classed with the cushion forms, because of the lignified shoots, but rather among the semishrubs and nanophanerophytes.
1960 N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. iii. 94 Refinements may be used such as the subdivision of phanerophytes into nanophanerophytes (shrubs) in which the renewal buds lie less than 2 metres above ground, microphanerophytes, [etc.].
1995 Jrnl. Ecol. 83 163/1 Nanophanerophyte. Perennates as a leafless thicket.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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