Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
ombroclima
English translation:
precipitation zone
Added to glossary by
Michele Fauble
Dec 11, 2004 20:15
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ombroclima
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I'm proofreading a piece on essential oils found in thyme plants. The paper was written in English, but by a Spanish person, and they have included the word ombroclima. Does anyone know what this is? If it exists in English? Or should it be ombroclimate???
thanks
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Context sentence:
"Some studies (Sáez 1995) describe no correlation between altitude, climatic belts, ombroclima and the essential oil composition of Thymus zygis."
thanks
xx
Context sentence:
"Some studies (Sáez 1995) describe no correlation between altitude, climatic belts, ombroclima and the essential oil composition of Thymus zygis."
Proposed translations
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| 5 +1 | precipitation zone |
Michele Fauble
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| 5 -1 | ombroclimate |
rhandler
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| 5 -1 | shady climate |
bigedsenior
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| 3 | ombroclimate |
JaneTranslates
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Michele Fauble
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precipitation zone
Ombroclima: La parte del clima que se refiere a las lluvias o precipitaciones.
geologia.cicese.mx/ahinojosa/Bioclima/H1/glosario.htm
... Components Analysis pooled over all species showed that precipitation zone, seedling quality, and species were significant factors affecting plant survival (P ...
www.tristate.wsu.edu/smith.htm
... These temperature and precipitation zones produce the wide range of vegetation zones that ... Although competition between plants can play a role, the position of ...
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/education/ rockies-greatbasin/rockiesandgreatbasin-edu-5.htm
... E. purpurea thrives in the higher precipitation zones and responds well to added ... Richters Herbs Goodwood, Ontario, Canada LOC-IAO, Wildseed Farms PO Box 3000 ...
www.umt.edu/mnps/growechinacea.htm
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Note added at 12 hrs 47 mins (2004-12-12 09:03:21 GMT)
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... The climate (temperature and precipitation) zones of some of the major plant communities (such as temperate forests, grasslands, and deserts) in the US are ...
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ nationalassessment/overviewecosystems.htm
Cartographers, or mapmakers, use colors to show different climate or precipitation zones. Economic or resource maps ...
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0920936.html
... Climate, including precipitation zone and summer drought, were critical for tree and shrub survival. Consistently lower survival in lower precipitation zones ...
www.tristate.wsu.edu/smith.htm
geologia.cicese.mx/ahinojosa/Bioclima/H1/glosario.htm
... Components Analysis pooled over all species showed that precipitation zone, seedling quality, and species were significant factors affecting plant survival (P ...
www.tristate.wsu.edu/smith.htm
... These temperature and precipitation zones produce the wide range of vegetation zones that ... Although competition between plants can play a role, the position of ...
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/nacc/education/ rockies-greatbasin/rockiesandgreatbasin-edu-5.htm
... E. purpurea thrives in the higher precipitation zones and responds well to added ... Richters Herbs Goodwood, Ontario, Canada LOC-IAO, Wildseed Farms PO Box 3000 ...
www.umt.edu/mnps/growechinacea.htm
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Note added at 12 hrs 47 mins (2004-12-12 09:03:21 GMT)
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... The climate (temperature and precipitation) zones of some of the major plant communities (such as temperate forests, grasslands, and deserts) in the US are ...
www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/Library/ nationalassessment/overviewecosystems.htm
Cartographers, or mapmakers, use colors to show different climate or precipitation zones. Economic or resource maps ...
www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0920936.html
... Climate, including precipitation zone and summer drought, were critical for tree and shrub survival. Consistently lower survival in lower precipitation zones ...
www.tristate.wsu.edu/smith.htm
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "That sounds more like it, I had seen the references to ombroclimate, but like you was worried by the fact that all of the webpages were not English native.
Cheers
xx"
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JaneTranslates
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ombroclimate
ombro- appears in Oxford Encyclopedic as a prefix referring to "atmospheric moisture." So "ombroclimate" would be perfectly reasonable.
Peer comment(s):
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Michele Fauble
: 'Ombroclimate', as far as I can determine, is not used by native English speakers.
12 hrs
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11 mins
rhandler
Works in field
ombroclimate
"ombroclimate" means shadowy climate. It's the same root that gave "umbra" in English, so defined by Webster's:
umbra (umbre) pl. -brae (-bre) or -bras
n.
1 shade or a shadow
2 the dark central cone of shadow projecting from a planet or satellite on the side opposite the sun: see eclipse, illus.
3 the dark central part of a sunspot
4 [Rare] a phantom, or ghost
5 Physics a perfect or complete shadow, in which no direct light is received from the source of illumination
umbral
adj.
Etymology
[L, a shade, shadow]
Some examples:
SYNTAXONOMICAL SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICA I
... climatophilous or slightly edaphohygrophilous, sclerophyllous or marcescent mesoforests or woodlands in dry and subhumid ombroclimate territories (Quercetalia ...
www.ucm.es/info/cif/book/namerica1/namerica_20.htm
Beech Groves
... In mountains of the centre and the north of the territory, under a hyper-humid ombroclimate, there is a predominance of oligotrophic beech groves. ...
www.euskadi.net/biodiversidad/bosques2_i.htm
Ladero m; Valle Cj; Santos Mt; Amor A; Espirito-santo md; 1990
... precipitation place these territories in the bioclimatic stage of lower thermomediterranean to upper mesomediterranean, with a humid ombroclimate (lower ...
caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/ snapdragon/lit/ladero_m_ea_1990.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
[PDF] Plant communities of the lagoons of the Portuguese Coastal ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
... Most of the area belongs to the mesomediterranean bioclimatic thermotype and the ombroclimate is of the sub-humid ∗ Author for correspondence ...
www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=242876&PDF=1
umbra (umbre) pl. -brae (-bre) or -bras
n.
1 shade or a shadow
2 the dark central cone of shadow projecting from a planet or satellite on the side opposite the sun: see eclipse, illus.
3 the dark central part of a sunspot
4 [Rare] a phantom, or ghost
5 Physics a perfect or complete shadow, in which no direct light is received from the source of illumination
umbral
adj.
Etymology
[L, a shade, shadow]
Some examples:
SYNTAXONOMICAL SYNOPSIS OF THE NORTH AMERICA I
... climatophilous or slightly edaphohygrophilous, sclerophyllous or marcescent mesoforests or woodlands in dry and subhumid ombroclimate territories (Quercetalia ...
www.ucm.es/info/cif/book/namerica1/namerica_20.htm
Beech Groves
... In mountains of the centre and the north of the territory, under a hyper-humid ombroclimate, there is a predominance of oligotrophic beech groves. ...
www.euskadi.net/biodiversidad/bosques2_i.htm
Ladero m; Valle Cj; Santos Mt; Amor A; Espirito-santo md; 1990
... precipitation place these territories in the bioclimatic stage of lower thermomediterranean to upper mesomediterranean, with a humid ombroclimate (lower ...
caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/ snapdragon/lit/ladero_m_ea_1990.html - 3k - Cached - Similar pages
[PDF] Plant communities of the lagoons of the Portuguese Coastal ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
... Most of the area belongs to the mesomediterranean bioclimatic thermotype and the ombroclimate is of the sub-humid ∗ Author for correspondence ...
www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=242876&PDF=1
Peer comment(s):
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Michele Fauble
: 'Ombroclima' refers to precipitation, not light levels. The references are from non-native speakers.
12 hrs
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1 hr
shady climate
Here are 3 refs. I think ombroclima was the translators invention.
The only refs I found using shade, were rain-shadow.
Of course, you could just use "shade".
... There are many valuable cash and subsistence crops that thrive in the ***shady climate*** under trees ...
www.agroforestry.net/overstory/overstory11.html
history of chocolate for chocolate lovers
... The hot, humid, but ***shady climate*** of the tropical rain forests of this region was perfect for growing cacao plants ...
www.harmonysweets.com/harmonysweets/history-of-chocolate-m....
Malaria Slows Some Boat Racers as They Compete Today
... that carries the malaria parasite in Asia needs a shady ***climate*** to flourish, and the forests of Kompong Thom province ...
www.cambodia.net/malaria/nov_1.htm
The only refs I found using shade, were rain-shadow.
Of course, you could just use "shade".
... There are many valuable cash and subsistence crops that thrive in the ***shady climate*** under trees ...
www.agroforestry.net/overstory/overstory11.html
history of chocolate for chocolate lovers
... The hot, humid, but ***shady climate*** of the tropical rain forests of this region was perfect for growing cacao plants ...
www.harmonysweets.com/harmonysweets/history-of-chocolate-m....
Malaria Slows Some Boat Racers as They Compete Today
... that carries the malaria parasite in Asia needs a shady ***climate*** to flourish, and the forests of Kompong Thom province ...
www.cambodia.net/malaria/nov_1.htm
Peer comment(s):
| disagree |
Michele Fauble
: 'Ombroclima' refers to precipitation, not light levels.
10 hrs
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