Ombrophobe

Ombrophobe or ombrophobous/ombrophobic plant (from Greek ὄμβρος - ombros, "storm of rain"[1] and φόβος - phobos, "fear"[2]) is a plant that cannot withstand much rain. The term was introduced by the 19th-century botanist Julius Wiesner, who identified the two extreme kinds of plants, ombrophobes and ombrophiles. Xerophytes are usually ombrophobous. [3]

References
  1. ὄμβρος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  2. φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
  3. Eugenius Warming, Oecology of Plants; An Introduction to the Study of Plant-Communities


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