Ombrophobe

Ombrophobe or ombrophobous/ombrophobic plant (from Greek ὄμβρος - ombros, "storm of rain"^[1] and φόβος - phobos, "fear"^[2]) is a plant that cannot withstand much rain. A similar term are xerophile and xerophyte.

Ombrophile or ombrophilous/ombrophilic plant is a plant that thrives in abundant amounts of rain.

The terms were introduced by the 19th-century botanist Julius Wiesner, who identified the two extreme kinds of plants, ombrophobes and ombrophiles. Xerophytes are usually ombrophobous.^[3]

1. ^ ὄμβρος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
2. ^ φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
3. ^ Eugenius Warming, Oecology of Plants; An Introduction to the Study of Plant-Communities

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