ombrotrophic.

Receiving water and nutrients chiefly from precipitation rather than mineral-rich groundwater, especially of a bog.

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• ombrotrophic bog
• ombrotrophic conditions

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An ombrotrophic bog covered the plateau beyond the stream.

Ombrotrophic conditions kept the vegetation low and specialized.

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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.