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Xerophile, xerophyte
Plant adapted to growing and reproducing in areas with low water availability.
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Xeromorphic
With adaptations for low water availability.
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Xeromorph
A plant adapted to areas with low water availability.
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Xenogamy
Where flowers are pollinated with pollen from another plant (within the same species).
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Xeric
Of dry areas.
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X
Placed after a genus name and before a specific epithet to indicate hybrid origin.
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Woolly
With dense matted long curled hairs. Clothed with entangled, soft hair. Having soft, wool-like hairs.
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Woody
Made of wood or wood-like tissue, often due to secondary growth. Hard, not quickly withering and dying like green stems. A stem which may not be big enough to use as timber but which contains hardened cells and is more or less permanent It is characteristic of trees and shrubs, but some climbers, such as…
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Withering
Diminishing in volume and becoming brown and wrinkled while dying.
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Withered
(Of non-woody plant parts) dried out.
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