HARDINESS
Hardiness
Hardiness of plants describes their ability to survive adverse growing conditions. It is usually limited to discussions of climatic adversity. Thus a plant's ability to tolerate cold, heat, drought, flooding, or wind are typically considered measurements of hardiness. Hardiness of plants is defined by their native extent's geographic location: longitude, latitude and elevation. These attributes are often simplified to a hardiness zone. In temperate latitudes, the term most often describes resistance to cold, or "cold-hardiness," and is generally measured by the lowest temperature a plant can withstand. Hardiness of a plant is usually divided into three ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Hardiness (plants)
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hardiness
Noun
- The state of being hardy, especially (of a plant) of being resistant to cold or other environmental conditions.
- hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance
- hardship; fatigue
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