xeromorph: a plant having structural features usually associated with plants of arid habitats (such as hard or succulent leaves) but not necessarily drought-tolerant. cf. scleromorph, xerophyte.
xerophyte: a drought-tolerant plant. xylem: the tissue, in a vascular plant, that conducts water and mineral salts from the roots to the leaves. cf. phloem. zygomorphic: of a flower with the parts such as sepals and petals differing in shape, size, position and/or number so that the flower can be bisected in one plane only; bilaterally symmetrical. cf. actinomorphic. |
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