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Xerophyte Zeer Uh Fyt Noun Plant Adapted Growing Dry Desert

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xerophyte /ZEER-uh-fyt/
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A plant adapted to growing in a very dry or desert environment.

[From Greek xero- (dry) + phyton (plant). Earliest documented use: 1897.]

"Saavik's bemused comment when Captain Howe, her former first officer, had sent her a 'get well cactus' was that on Vulcan it was a superfluous xerophyte." Keith R.A. DeCandido; Star Trek: Tales of the Dominion War; Simon & Schuster; 2004.

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