MEANING
Relating to wet conditions or soils affected by prolonged saturation.
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- hydric soil
- hydric conditions
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Hydric soil gave way beneath the surveyor's boot.
Hydric conditions favored a low band of wetland plants.
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- hydric
Usage notes
Primary category: environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a seasonal, material, ecological, or geographic relation; comparison requires a measurable or descriptive basis. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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