1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorkshire 69Others ..are quite as much *psammophiles, if their stations be any guide. [ sc. plants]
1901 C. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 131The slender, wiry culms of this grass..render the species one of the most striking types of psammophile plants.
1973 M. A. Sleigh Biol. Protozoa xi. 264These *psammophilic forms have been studied by J. Dragesco. [ of Protozoa]
1869 Trimen & Dyer Flora Middlesex 361In the list of *psammophilous species..the majority do not show a decided bias for any soil.
1888 F. A. Lees Flora W. Yorkshire 78 (heading)Arenaceous soils and psammophilous species.
1909 E. Warming Oecol. Plants lxviii. 263The fourth formation, composed of large dune-grasses, is much more psammophilous than halophilous.
1961 R. D. Manwell Introd. Protozool. xv. 305Some species appear to be restricted to beach sands... Such species are said to be ‘psammophilous’. [ of Sarcodina]
1903 W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. ii. i. 80The formations of the sandy sea-shore and of dunes serve as excellent examples of the vegetation of *psammophytes.
1909 E. Warming Oecol. Plants lxix. 264Triticum junceum..is one of the halophilous psammophytes that begin the production of dune.
1973 F. di Castri in di Castri & Mooney Mediterranean Type Ecosystems ii. 22The psammophyte Ambrosia chamissonis was remarkably similar in the coastal fringe of Chile and western North America.
1901 Lancet 26 Jan. 251/1 A *psammosarcoma as large as an orange had grown from the falx cerebri, compressing both prefrontal lobes.
1916 *Psammosere . [ see lithoseres.v. litho-]
1929 Weaver & Clements PlantEcol. iv. 74The differences of hardness and stability result in very dissimilar seres. These are distinguished as (rock) lithoseres and (sand) psammoseres, respectively.
1964 V. J. Chapman Coastal Vegetation vi. 150The dune succession..is quite clearly a prisere, and since it develops on sand it is often known as a Psammosere.
psammo-
word-forming element meaning "sand," from comb. form of Greek psammos "sand," related to psamathos (see sand, n.). Related: Psammic; psammite.
psammo-
combining form
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