Picture a front yard in a hot dry town with no grass in it: pale gravel, a few thick-leaved plants that hold their own water, bark around their roots, one small tree throwing shade. Nobody stands there with a hose. That yard is the whole word. Everything else xeriscape does is that yard seen from a different angle — the practice that produces it, or the work of making one.
From the word’s history
Coined in the 1980s by Denver Water, which trademarked it, from xeri- plus -scape (as in landscape).
這個字是 1980 年代由美國丹佛的自來水公司造出來並註冊商標的，由 xeri- 加上 -scape（取自 landscape）組成。也就是說它從第一天起就是一個省水宣導用語，不是植物學名詞，這解釋了為什麼它到今天還是常跟市政補助、水費放在一起講。
Wiktionary, "xeriscape"
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原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
xeriscapenoun/ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/
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A kind of landscape design for arid regions, minimising the need for irrigation.
- Randy looks up over the Impala and the retaining wall and the ice-clogged xeriscape above that and into the lobby of Waterhouse House, where Amy Shaftoe has her feet up on a coffee table and is looking through some of the extremely sad Cayuse-related literature that Randy bought for Avi.
- But Frank Fairbanks, a retired public administrator, had to sheepishly acknowledge that he had grass. “Unfortunately, like many of our central Phoenix neighbors, we have a green lawn which consumes more water than xeriscape,” he told the paper.
xeriscapeverb/ˈzɛ.ɹɪ.skeɪp/
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To landscape in a water-friendly manner.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。