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ericoid

The English word “ericoid” has 3 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of plant leaves, small, often leathery, usually needle-like or scale-like, non-deciduous, and generally adapted to poor soils and arid conditions, such as in fynbos and maquis.
  2. Of plant habit, having ericoid leaves, slender, scrubby and woody, like many Erica species.

noun

  1. A plant of this kind.

Etymology

From Erica + -oid.

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