xerify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Severe fires xerify forest sites by consuming much of the forest floor and perhaps even organic matter in the mineral soil , as well as by exposing the site to greater solar radiation through canopy reduction. Conversion of mesic sites to xeric conditions[…]"
- "This band of denser vegetation prevents water and sediment from moving father down the slope. This effectively xerifies (dries out) and distrophicates (depletes nutrients in) the intervening spaces. Dominating chenopod shrubs can, because of salt pumping and alteration of wind and water erosion and infiltration, interact with shrink-swell physical processes associated with clay particles to form a unique microrelief."
- "[…] while fire tends to xerify microsites, at least in the short run, by oxidizing humus from the forest floor and exposing the soil surface to greater insolation."
Etymology
From xer- + -ify.