tropical plant

collocation in English

meaningsoftropicalandplant

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tropical
adjective
uk
/ˈtrɒp.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈtrɑː.pɪ.kəl/
geography,environment
from or relating to the area between the ...
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plant
noun
uk
/plɑːnt/us
/plænt/
a living thing that grows in earth, in water, or on other plants, usually has a stem, leaves, roots, and flowers, and ...
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(Definition oftropicalandplantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This may have important consequences on the preference of folivorous insects that interact with galling insects in thesetropicalplantspecies.
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Such experiments will elucidate the ecological importance of fungi associated with seeds of tropical trees - a currently under-studied aspect oftropicalplantecology.
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Finally, we discuss these results in the light of theories of resource partitioning and maintenance of diversity intropicalplantcommunities.
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Our data also provide a note of caution fortropicalplantphysiologists: cryptic fungal symbionts should be considered in studies of plant water relations.
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Future studies specifically designed to test parapatric speciation are needed to elucidate the importance of this mechanism intropicalplantrichness.
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Leaf herbivores decrease fitness of atropicalplant.
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These results indicate that galling insect species may directly affect leaf phenolic concentrations and indirectly may affect the incidence and consumption of folivorous insects intropicalplantspecies.
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Behavioral and morphological adaptations of atropicalplantto high rainfall.
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I think it is like engrafting upon sometropicalplanta growth which has been accustomed to a harder climate.
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We are nowhere near encompassing the diversity oftropicalplantand insect life.
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Rice is the basic food crop and being atropicalplant, it flourishes comfortably in hot and humid climate.
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This carefully controlled tropical environment houses as many as 80 butterfly species and 150tropicalplantspecies.
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In response to the cooler, seasonal climate,tropicalplantspecies gave way to deciduous ones and grasslands replaced many forests.
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The rich dipterocarp forest also harbor numeroustropicalplantspecies including the threatened species of pitcher plants and rafflesia as well as endemic banana varieties.
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Manytropicalplantspecies depend entirely on bats for the distribution of their seeds.
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It is also found in conifers and pteridophytes. 14% oftropicalplantspecies create latex, as opposed to 6% of temperate plant species.
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Opened in 1991, the garden displays hundreds oftropicalplantspecies and colorful flower varieties.
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As atropicalplant, it grows in warm, humid climates.
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It is atropicalplant, that should be in a spot receiving at least six hours of direct sunlight a day.
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As atropicalplantit likes moisture, but avoid letting the plant sit in water after you water it.
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