hygrometric
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The weather may be foretold with considerable certainty, for a short time, from many hygrometric plants, and the atmospheric influence on animals.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 558, July 21, 1832 by Various
Another theory is that water-finders are “exceptionally sensitive to hygrometric influences.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
The special object of these investigations, like those in France, was the determination of the temperature and hygrometric condition of the air at different elevations.
From Sounding the Ocean of Air by A. Lawrence Rotch
The cones are inert under hygrometric changes and may always be recognized in herbaria by their persistent occlusion and soft tissues.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
This appears to be true of all species excepting the three species of the Cembrae, whose strands are so small and weak that they are not obviously affected by hygrometric changes.
From The Genus Pinus by George Russell Shaw
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