ombro-
combining form
indicating rain
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ombrogenous
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ombrophilous
Origin
from Greek ombros shower of rainombro-
combining form
- relating to rain表示“与雨有关的”：
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ombrotrophic.
词源
from Greek ombros 'rain shower'.
1939 A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation xxxv. 718Blanket moss or bog—*ombrogenous.
1946 Proc. Prehist. Soc. XII. 3The blanket-bog is termed an ‘ombrogenous’ mire, to indicate the fact that its existence is directly determined by the rainfall and evaporation to which it is subject.
1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest ix. 215The vegetation of the ombrogenous moors is tall evergreen forest.
1975 J. R. Etherington Environment & PlantEcol. iii. 91Some other peat soils are topogenous rather than ombrogenous.
1865 Athenæum No. 1942. 54/2The *Ombrological Almanack.
1845 P. Legh ( title)Hints for Anemology and *Ombrology, with a Weather Almanac for 1840 and 1845.
1744 R. Pickering in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 12 (2)Of the *Ombrometer. This Machine consists of a tin Funnel, whose Surface is an Inch square, a flat Board, and a glass Tube let into the Middle of it in a Groove,..and an Index.
1763 Borlase ibid. LIII. 29If you..keep an ombrometer, and register of the rain.
1794 Gentl. Mag. LXIV. i. 295,I found a very brief description of an instrument of this kind, but under the word ombrometer.
1897 Willis Flower. Pl. I. 153Wiesner..divides plants into *ombrophiles, which can undergo without injury long-continued rain, and *ombrophobes, whose leaves soon decay or fall off under such circumstances.
1895 Jrnl. R.Microsc. Soc. 194Plants which, on the one hand are uninjured (*ombrophilous) and on the other hand are injured (*ombrophobous) by excessive rainfall.
Ibid. ,Some species..growing in moist shady situations, are nevertheless ombrophobous.
Ibid. ,Xerophilous plants..are hardly ever ombrophilous.
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. i. i. 2Xerophytes perish after two or three days of continuous rain; they are rain-avoiding, ombrophobous, whereas hygrophytes are, as a rule, ombrophilous... Ombrophilous foliage is capable of being wetted, ombrophobous foliage is unwettable.
Ibid. iii. i. 225Reference may here be made to Wiesner's investigations regarding the *ombrophily and *ombrophoby of tropical vegetation.
1897 Jrnl. R.Microsc. Soc. 412Ombrophoby of flowers.–By this term Prof. A. Hansgirg designates the phenomena of curvature by which many flowers protect themselves against injury from long-continued rain or other exposure to moisture.
1964 D. A. Ratcliffe in J. H. Burnett Vegetation ofScotl. x. 428Some peatland ecologists prefer a simpler initial separation into minerotrophic types..depending on a terrestrial and therefore nutrient-enriched water supply, and *ombrotrophic types (raised and blanket bogs) depending solely on nutrient-deficient atmospheric moisture and wind-borne particles.
1983 Jrnl. Bryol. XII. 335The ombrotrophic vegetation in Ireland (and especially in western parts) includes several species which are restricted to minerotrophic vegetation in Fennoscandia.
ombro-
combining form
Etymology: Greek, from ombros — more at imbricate
: rain
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