mesocratic

English

Etymology

meso- +‎ -cratic

Adjective

mesocratic (not comparable)

1. Relating to mesocracy, or rule by the middle class.
2. (mineralogy) Neither leucocratic nor melanocratic; having a more or less even mixture of light and dark constituents.

Noun

mesocratic (uncountable)

1. (ecology) The second stage of interglacial forest development (Early-Temperate), characterized by a transitional mix of light-demanding and shade-tolerant species.
   • 1975, Valentin Abramovich Krasilov, Paleoecology of Terrestrial Plants, page 229:

     Turner and West ( 1968 ) suggest that the phases of an interglacial period (cryocratic, protocratic, mesocratic, telocratic ) be considered as cenozones.

   • 1987, Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae, page 10:

     Hence, regional soil degenerations and podsolization was probably an important factor contributing to the retrogressive change in the forest composition at the end of the mesocratic phase..

   • 2012, M. Ingrouille, Historical Ecology of the British Flora, page 76:

     The fully developed mesocratic woodland had a somewhat different character..

Coordinate terms

• cryocratic
• protocratic
• oligocratic
• telocratic

Anagrams

• comatrices, costameric