Definition of hydric in English:
hydric
adjective ˈhʌɪdrɪkˈhaɪdrɪk
Ecology (of an environment or habitat) containing plenty of moisture; very wet.
Compare with mesic and xeric
Example sentencesExamples
- The soils vary considerably, but share the fact that all are hydric and often subject to flooding.
- ‘Albania is very rich with hydric resources’, he tells me.
- Several new studies point to evidence that some organisms with limited capacities to acclimatize to thermal or hydric change may be limited in their ability to survive future climate changes.
- Communities range from xeric habitats such as scrub and scrubby flatwoods to hydric habitats such as floodplain forest and blackwater stream.
- It had the hydric soil characteristic of former wetlands.
Origin
Early 20th century: from hydro- + -ic.