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deserticole

noun

Definitions

  1. A desert-dweller

    A desert-dweller; one who is deserticolous.

    • […] "deserticoles", by virtue of retaining their rainforest life style and repertoire of adaptations (transmuted as "fortuitous adaptations") are masquerading as "deserticoles".
    • Deserticole, inhabits mesic situations with sparse vegetation. […]
    • […] arboricoles (= dendrobionts), symbionts of ants or termites, deserticoles etc. are habitually even less conspicuous, […] in Israel and the West Bank) are deserticoles.

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