Definition of "mesic" [mesic]

• Ecology Of, characterized by, or adapted to a moderately moist habitat. (adjective)

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• "One even finds small remnants of boreal pine forests, old growth forest, and mesic forest tucked away in Durango's high sierra region."
• "Mexican mesic forest survives as one of the world's rarest and most endangered vegetation types."
• "The soil temperature regimes are mesic and thermic inland, mesic on the rolling hills between the Santa Rosa plain and the Pacific Ocean, and isomesic along the coast."