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Meaning of xerosphere | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A region with extremely arid conditions; a desert environment.

Examples

“We do use the latter across the brook where they make a "lawn" on a rock on rock lateral moraine under big sugar maples, and where absolutely nothing else will grow but the invading pioneers of the xerosphere such as brambles.”
“What about a xerosphere? Be the first on your block to fill the yard with sand, rocks and ocotillo.”
“They are the pioneer colonizers both in hydrosphere and xerosphere and occupy the base of the trophic pyramid.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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