xerophyte

IPA: zˈɪrɑfaɪt

(botany) Any plant suited for life in a habitat where water is scarce, such as in a desert or chaparral. Such plants may be succulent, have small or reduced leaves, or spines.
A desert plant

Examples of "xerophyte" in Sentences

But it is useful to know it probably isn't a xerophyte.
An easily cultivated, fast growing epiphyte or xerophyte.
It is a xerophyte and many peoples favorite type of plant.
Visible desert vegetation consists mainly of xerophyte plants.
Xerophytes Xerophytes have adaptations for reduced rate of transpiration.
The relicts of the xerophyte vegetation of Beringia in the Northeastern Asia.
Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
Shrub steppe is also common in this ecoregion comprised of xerophyte shrub and tree species of Spiraea, Caragana, Amygdalus, Lonicera.
The species is said to be hygrophil, according to the Illustrated Guide, in Black River Gorges also a xerophyte (drought-tolerant) subspecies, Labourdonnaisia revoluta can be found.
Another leafless Asclepiad, Periploca aphylla, which extends westwards to Arabia and Nubia and southwards to Sindh, is, like Boucerosia, a typical xerophyte adapted to a very dry soil and atmosphere.