Meaning of terricole | Babel Free

Definitions

Ground-dwelling or growing close to the ground.

Examples

“Man himself is terricole in habits, with vertical carriage, and walking on two feet.”

“The plant from Heald Brow is terricole, occurring on loose sandy calcareous earth about the entrances to rabbit-holes, in a very dry locality, Heald Brow being a dry hill on the scar-limestone.”

“The greatest bulk of the typical high altitude insects are generally small-sized, flightless or apterous, mostly heavily pigmented, terricole forms that occur under stoness, in the immediate vicinity of glaciers, snow and melt waters.”

“These peculiarities depend largely on the moisture requirements of the terricole species. In humid weather, the top layer of the soil is usually highly saturated and moist, so that the terricole species generally occur on the upper layers of the soil.”

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