mesocratic

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adjective

Relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.

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Meanings

adjectivemesocratic (not comparable)
  1. not comparableRelating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.
  2. not comparablechemistryNeither leucocratic nor melanocratic; having a more or less even mixture of light and dark constituents.
nounmesocratic (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebiologyThe second stage of interglacial forest development (Early-Temperate), characterized by a transitional mix of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species.

    The fully developed mesocratic woodland had a somewhat different character..

    2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76
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    Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic, telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

    1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229

    Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..

    1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10

Origin

From meso- + -cratic.

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