xyrophilic
English
Etymology
xyro- (“razor-like”) + -philic
Adjective
xyrophilic (not comparable)
- (botany, rare) Having sharp, razor-like leaves.
- 1985, Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton [eds.], Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory to Statehood (University of Alabama Press; →ISBN, 9780817302085), page 22
- In Mexico and the American Southwest, lush well-watered plains were slowly replaced by arid lands with a xyrophilic plant cover.²⁶
- 1985, Reid Badger and Lawrence A. Clayton [eds.], Alabama and the Borderlands: From Prehistory to Statehood (University of Alabama Press; →ISBN, 9780817302085), page 22