Ombrophobe or ombrophobous/ombrophobic plant (from Greek ὄμβρος - ombros, "storm of rain" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is a plant that cannot withstand much rain. A similar term are xerophile and xerophyte.
Ombrophile or ombrophilous/ombrophilic plant is a plant that thrives in abundant amounts of rain.
The terms were introduced by the 19th-century botanist Julius Wiesner, who identified the two extreme kinds of plants, ombrophobes and ombrophiles. Xerophytes are usually ombrophobous.
References
- ὄμβρος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- φόβος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- Eugenius Warming, Oecology of Plants; An Introduction to the Study of Plant-Communities
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