psammoxenic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Unable to survive in sandy environments.
Example Sentences
- "This system of classification has merit, since it is desirable to be able to indicate variation in tolerance to conditions of the psammon; but, since Varga (1938) classed as psammoxenic certain species that were placed in the psammobiotic group by Wiszniewski, there appears to be some question of the validity of all three groups."
- "It is remarkable that all testate amoebas belonging to the psammoxenic category are reported by Decloitre along the French coast of the department of Var."
- "Probably the most common Dicranophorus. previous findings in limnosaprobic environments of fresh and brackish waters, but also recorded as psammoxenic species from the hygropsammon of lakes; cosmopolite"
- "A total of 47 interstitial testate amoebas have been recorded in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Of these, 32 are psammobiotic, 11 are psammophilic, and 4 are psammoxenic."
Etymology
From psammo- + xeno- + -ic.