xerosphere

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"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."

From xero- + -sphere.

xerospheres (plural)

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