different between drought vs tropophyte

English

Alternative forms

• drouth (Scotland, Northern England, poetry). The pronunciation with /?/ properly belongs with this now archaic doublet.

Etymology

From Middle English droghte, drou?te, druhhþe, dru?þe, drou?th, from Old English dr?gaþ, equivalent to dry +? -th. Cognate with Dutch droogte, Low German Dröögde.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /d?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [d???t]
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

drought (countable and uncountable, plural droughts)

1. A period of unusually low rainfall, longer and more severe than a dry spell.
2. (by extension, informal) A longer than expected term without success, particularly in sport.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• losing streak

Antonyms

• winning streak

Translations

English

Etymology

From German Tropophyt. Surface reading of tropo- (“changeable”) +? -phyte (“plant”).

Noun

tropophyte (plural tropophytes)

1. (biology) Any plant that lives in an environment in which heavy rainfall alternates with periods of drought

Anagrams

• protophyte