Word.ws English Dictionary

sclerophyllous

sclerophyllous adjective: relating to sclerophylls.

Adjective

sclerophyllous (not comparable)

  1. Relating to sclerophylls.
    • The hipparionine horses arose in North America during the Middle Miocene and differed significantly from Anchitherium and other similar equids in the development of very high-crowned cheek teeth as a response to the more sclerophyllous, harder vegetation.2007, Winfried Henke, Handbook of Paleoanthropology

sclerophyllous meaning in Tamil

sclerophyllous in Tamil

வன்தோலிகள்சார்

Origin of sclerophyllous

From sclero- + -phyllous.

Questions about sclerophyllous

What does sclerophyllous mean?
Sclerophyllous means relating to sclerophylls.
What is sclerophyllous in Tamil?
Sclerophyllous in Tamil is வன்தோலிகள்சார். See Sclerophyllous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sclerophyllous?
Sclerophyllous is an adjective.

Words near sclerophyllous in the dictionary

  1. scleronomic
  2. scleronomous
  3. scleronomy
  4. sclerophillous
  5. sclerophyll
  6. sclerophyllous
  7. sclerophylls
  8. sclerophylly
  9. sclerophylous
  10. scleroplasties
  11. scleroplasty

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sclerophyllous (page history and authors); sclerophyllous (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “sclerophyllous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sclerophyllous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.