hydrophilous
- adjective
- /ˌhaɪdrəˈfɪləs/
- Specialized
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hidrófilo
- Some hydrophilous species can survive and grow fully submerged in aquatic habitats.
- hydrophilous species
- hydrophilous systems
Examples
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The hydrophilous plants thrive in wetland environments where they can absorb water easily.
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These hydrophilous organisms are crucial for maintaining healthy ecosystems in marshes and swamps.
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In this model, self-pollination occupies a key intermediate position that allows hydrophilous features to accumulate while maintaining seed production.
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Finally, transitional stages that may have linked ancestral aerial pollination systems and derived hydrophilous systems have not been identified.
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The preceding examples indicate that convergent hydrophilous reproduction has apparently evolved successfully from both biotic and abiotic systems.
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These primitive characteristics are convergent with features that have been derived in other hydrophilous angiosperms, presumably as adaptations to water pollination.
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Callitriche is the only genus of flowering plants that is known to have both aerial and hydrophilous pollination systems (Philbrick 1993).
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Most hydrophilous systems have evidently evolved from anemophilous precursors (Les 1988a, b, Sculthorpe 1967).
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Hydrophily may have evolved by gradual selection on aerial floral systems, leading to the accumulation of hydrophilous characters (the so-called gradual model).
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Including Callitriche and Ceratophyllum (Figure 4), the only hydrophilous dicot genera, hydrophily has evolved as many as nine times in angiosperms.
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Synonyms
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4.4
Living in or found in water
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6.5
A material that likes water and mixes with it easily
A plant that grows in water or very wet ground
Needing a lot of water to grow in very wet places
Needing a lot of water to grow
Allowing water to soak in or spread on it
Relating to water or to things that live in water
Antonyms
How Water-Loving
Surface Forms
Morphology
hydrophilous = hydrophile (transparent) = hydro + phil + ous
The meaning follows the straightforward water-loving pattern, so the sense is largely recoverable from the components.
Etymology
Hydrophilous comes from the Greek parts hydro- 'water' and -philous 'loving', like in hydrate or hydrant. So something called hydrophilous 'likes' water, can take up water, or lives in wet places.