dry period

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meanings of dryand period

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dry
adjective
uk /draɪ/ us /draɪ/
used to describe something that has no water or other liquid in, on, or ...
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period
noun[C]
uk /ˈpɪə.ri.əd/ us /ˈpɪr.i.əd/
a length ...
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Examples of dry period

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Variation in length of the dryperiod was simulated by subjecting part of the seedlings to a water treatment at the end of the dryperiod.
The observations were taken after a week of moist weather conditions following a dryperiod.
The exact duration of the dryperiod depends on the depth and type of soil.
The 28 species are arranged both in the wet (solid triangles) and dryperiod (open triangles).
However, the impact of this dryperiod does not appear to have been uniformly felt.
When fertilization was followed by a dryperiod, inter-row application yielded higher than other methods.
The water treatment started on day 226, and the first significant rains after the dryperiod fell on day 263.
During the dryperiod, a water deficit of 0.13 million m3 per day is avoided at the intake point.
However, even during this dryperiod an average monthly mean of 150 mm rainfall is recorded in the delta.
At least one field experiment has confirmed that the fungus is able to tolerate a dryperiod.
In this case, seeds may be entering secondary dormancy, sensing the arrival of the intervening cold dryperiod.
A long dryperiod was followed by torrential rains.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The dryperiod was defined as the period with no rain in between but only as long as sampled shrubs had l eaves.
When an apparent regional dryperiod peaking around a. d. 900 coupled with the effects of local deforestation, the south's equilibrium was upset.
In tropical moist forests, length of the dryperiod may have a profound influence on leaf dynamics, plant growth and survival.
The effect of variation in length of the dryperiod was simulated by subjecting part of the seedlings to a water treatment.
The length of this dryperiod is particularly important in determining yields from maize and from several types of fruit trees.
We measured soil moisture content in both the wet and dryperiod to test our hypothesis on the soil moisture availability for plants.
Litterfall was collected at least every 15 d in the rainy period, and at least every month in the dryperiod.
A similar situation prevails in some regions of the sub-humid tropics, where water is extremely scarce during the dryperiod.
The leafless period was three times longer for understorey plants compared to gap plants, which suggests that they experience a substantially longer dryperiod.
Species which can be deciduous in the seedling stage have a higher chance of surviving the dryperiod than evergreen species.
Periods of low rainfall (, 50%) included the dryperiod throughout the 1975 - 1976 season, which culminated in the summer drought of 1976, and the autumn of 1978.
I use that phrase, "the dryperiod", because that was the term he himself used.
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