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comb. f. Gr. ὄµβρος shower of rain: omˈbrogenous a., of moorland or marsh, needing a high rainfall for its development; ˈombrograph [see -graph], ‘an automatic instrument for recording the time of occurrence, quantity, and rapidity of rainfall’ (Funk, 1893); omˈbrology [see -logy], the branch of meteorology that deals with rain; hence ombroˈlogical a.; omˈbrometer [see -meter], a rain-gauge; ˈombrophil [see -phil], see quot.; omˈbrophilous a. [a. G. ombrophile (J. Wiesner 1893, in Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien Abth. I. CII. 503)], of a plant, able to flourish in conditions of excessive moisture; so omˈbrophily; ˈombrophobe [see -phobe], see quot.; omˈbrophobous a. [a. G. ombrophobe (J. Wiesner 1893, loc. cit.)], of a plant, not well adapted to very wet conditions; so omˈbrophoby.
1939A. G. Tansley Brit. Islands & their Vegetation xxxv. 718 Blanket moss or bog—*ombrogenous. 1946Proc. Prehist. Soc. XII. 3 The blanket-bog is termed an ‘ombrogenous’ mire, to indicate the fact that its existence is directly determined by the rainfall and evaporation to which it is subject. 1952P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest ix. 215 The vegetation of the ombrogenous moors is tall evergreen forest. 1975J. R. Etherington Environment & Plant Ecol. iii. 91 Some other peat soils are topogenous rather than ombrogenous.
1865Athenæum No. 1942. 54/2 The *Ombrological Almanack.
1845P. Legh (title) Hints for Anemology and *Ombrology, with a Weather Almanac for 1840 and 1845.
1744R. Pickering in Phil. Trans. XLIII. 12 (2) Of the *Ombrometer. This Machine consists of a tin Funnel, whose Surface is an Inch square, a flat Board, and a glass Tube let into the Middle of it in a Groove,..and an Index. 1763Borlase ibid. LIII. 29 If you..keep an ombrometer, and register of the rain. 1794Gentl. Mag. LXIV. i. 295, I found a very brief description of an instrument of this kind, but under the word ombrometer.
1897Willis Flower. Pl. I. 153 Wiesner..divides plants into *ombrophiles, which can undergo without injury long-continued rain, and *ombrophobes, whose leaves soon decay or fall off under such circumstances.
1895Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 194 Plants which, on the one hand are uninjured (*ombrophilous) and on the other hand are injured (*ombrophobous) by excessive rainfall. Ibid., Some species..growing in moist shady situations, are nevertheless ombrophobous. Ibid., Xerophilous plants..are hardly ever ombrophilous. 1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. i. i. 2 Xerophytes perish after two or three days of continuous rain; they are rain-avoiding, ombrophobous, whereas hygrophytes are, as a rule, ombrophilous... Ombrophilous foliage is capable of being wetted, ombrophobous foliage is unwettable. Ibid. iii. i. 225 Reference may here be made to Wiesner's investigations regarding the *ombrophily and *ombrophoby of tropical vegetation.
1897Jrnl. R. Microsc. Soc. 412 Ombrophoby of flowers.–By this term Prof. A. Hansgirg designates the phenomena of curvature by which many flowers protect themselves against injury from long-continued rain or other exposure to moisture.
Add: ombroˈtrophic a. Ecol. [ad. G. ombrotroph (G. E. du Rietz 1954, in Vegetatio V.–VI. 572)], chiefly or entirely dependent on precipitation for all nutrients; usu. applied to bogs or mires and their vegetation.
1964D. A. Ratcliffe in J. H. Burnett Vegetation of Scotl. x. 428 Some peatland ecologists prefer a simpler initial separation into minerotrophic types..depending on a terrestrial and therefore nutrient-enriched water supply, and *ombrotrophic types (raised and blanket bogs) depending solely on nutrient-deficient atmospheric moisture and wind-borne particles. 1983Jrnl. Bryol. XII. 335 The ombrotrophic vegetation in Ireland (and especially in western parts) includes several species which are restricted to minerotrophic vegetation in Fennoscandia. |
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