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The mouth of June, so far, had been exceedingly droughty.

A droughty summer or a hard winter and the fern, especially an older one, may not make it.

They were concerned about the "droughty" conditions and perceived that was what was wrong.

The region is the most droughty in the south of the European part of Russia.

Because of the aridity, many animal species rely on protected migration corridors during droughty conditions.

Higher drainage becomes more droughty which hinders the establishment of certain grasses good for waterways.

Loess is parent material for an extremely fertile, but droughty soil.

Because they are predominantly porous, sandy soils, the area tends to be droughty and irrigation is required for agriculture.

This being an exceedingly droughty time for news, journalists naturally picked up and investigated this piece of trivia.

Soils are droughty and high in magnesium, creating a poor medium for plant growth; reforestation problems limit logging.

"It's looking droughty to me."

However, during the droughty years the lake drains out completely causing damage to the closed eco-system centered around it.

Millets are not only adapted to poor, droughty, and infertile soils, but they are also more reliable under these conditions than most other grain crops.

"It's an excellent habitat for these fish to survive in the really droughty months of summer," said Charles Galgowski, one of the engineers.

Heavy precipitation is most common in summer thunderstorms, but droughty periods are more likely during these months since summer precipitation is more variable than winter.

Understory vegetation is of plants that are well adapted to droughty conditions, as well as the frequent lightning-induced fires typical of the region.

"May apple is extremely tough and, once established, can grow in poor, droughty conditions where most woodland wildflowers fail," Mr. Cullina writes.

Beside the droughty periods typical for the region, the second reason for the underpopulation of the Black Sea northern shores is the vicinity of the Tatars.

If they're not fearing you, itself, the peelers in this place is decent droughty poor fellows, wouldn't touch a cur dog and not give warning in the dead of night.

The droughty and agriculturally unproductive Dudhwa range creates a buffer zone between the divergent cultures of the plains of Uttar Pradesh and the Inner Terai.

Cooperia is distinguishable from the more famous rain lily genus, Zephyranthes, by its fragrance similar to primroses, its white or yellow pollen, and its tolerance for droughty and desert conditions (Howard 2001:54).

The administrative borders of Gerakas enclose parts of the Stavros settlement around the Army's Hill, as well as the droughty fields of the southern hills of Penteli up to the marble workshops and the scattered industries.

The largest systems - from east to west Koshi, Gandaki/Narayani, Karnali/Goghra and Mahakali-originate in multiple tributaries rising in or beyond the high Himalaya that maintain substantial flows from snowmelt through the hot, droughty spring before the summer monsoon.

He remembered, years before, in a hot droughty summer, stopping to water his horse in a drying lake far up the Brazos--he had ridden his horse in so he could drink and had happened to look down and see that the muddy shallows of the lake were alive with cottonmouths.

In the two first of them, however, they were entirely mistaken, for we had no droughty season, but in the beginning of the year a hard frost, which lasted from December almost to March, and after that moderate weather, rather warm than hot, with refreshing winds, and, in short, very seasonable weather, and also several very great rains.