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mesocratic

mesocratic adjective: relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.

Adjective

mesocratic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.
  2. Neither leucocratic nor melanocratic; having a more or less even mixture of light and dark constituents.

Noun

mesocratic (uncountable)

  1. The second stage of interglacial forest development (Early-Temperate), characterized by a transitional mix of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species.
    • 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 of mesocratic

From meso- + -cratic.

Questions about mesocratic

What does mesocratic mean?
Mesocratic means relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.
What part of speech is mesocratic?
Mesocratic can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near mesocratic in the dictionary

  1. mesocracies
  2. mesocracy
  3. mesocranial
  4. mesocranic
  5. mesocrany
  6. mesocratic
  7. mesocrystal
  8. mesocrystalline
  9. mesocrystals
  10. mesocuneiform
  11. mesocuneiforms

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