desert plant

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desert plant - plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophytexerophile, xerophilous plant, xerophyte, xerophytic plantagave, American aloe, century plant - tropical American plants with basal rosettes of fibrous sword-shaped leaves and flowers in tall spikes; some cultivated for ornament or for fibertracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms