Meanings
- not comparableThat thrives in an acidic environment
The Czech forests represent small extant fragments of herb-rich and acidophilous montane mixed old-growth forests with the tree composition and herb vegetation approaching the natural one, dominated mostly by beech with spruce admixtures.
2015 July 17, Eva Holá et al., “Comparison of Genetic Structure of Epixylic Liverwort Crossocalyx hellerianus between Central European and Fennoscandian Populations”, in PLoS ONE, volume 10, →DOI
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveespecially of some bacteria; growing well in an acid medium
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Origin
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