Meanings
plural chresards
- datedThe portion of the water in a sample of soil that is available to vegetation (e.g. plant roots)
As in the previous series the chresard decreased progressively with the density, but the correspondence with depth was less consistent.
1929, Frederic Clements, Plant Competition: An Analysis of Community Functions, page 2381 more example
The soil is typically light and sandy, and the oaks are relicts from a moist phase of the climatic cycle that have been able to maintain themselves against the competition of the grasses by virtue of the favored chresard of the sandy soil.
2008, Susan Merriweather Harris, The Western Cross Timbers: Scenario of the Past, Outcome for the Future, page 12
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Origin
- Ancient Greekχρῆσις“use”
- Englishchresard
From Ancient Greek χρῆσις (khrêsis, “use”) + ἄρδω (árdō, “to water, to irrigate”).
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