What is "hardier"

Usage examples of "hardier".

Some of the hardier species had developed ways of eating the more noxious chemicals, and a few seaweeds had developed a symbiotic relationship with them, carrying the algae in their nodelike floats or under the broad leaves, until the entire coast was poisoned.

A few of the younger and hardier survivors had ventured off on their own, trying to find someplace better.

The switchbacking terrain was exhausting, even for the hardier members of the group.

The female of the species is always the hardier, so the females have taken charge of things.

As a soldier the Pathan is a finer shot, a hardier man, a better marcher, especially on the hillside, and possibly an even more brilliant fighter.

The air was still thin despite all the carbon dioxide brought in from Venus and the oxygen liberated from Mars itselfmen and animals still had to wear breathing masks, though pressure suits were no longer necessary for the hardier breeds, like Marscamels.

And in truth, he was hardier than the horses, quicker to regain strength.

Read on and mark how the sensual Greeks were trodden down by the more robust and hardier Romans, and finally how the Romans, having lost their manly virtues, were subdued by the nations of the north.

But many of the hardier plants had kept their summer hue, many flowers still bloomed, and this reedy bog, the one place in all the valley that Elbryan had truly come to hate, had not frozen.

Then the orchards would turn into dead wood, the hardier weeds take over, the land become waste.

One hung on a cross and died of physical weakness some hours before the two felons who were his hardier fellow sufferers, leaving a teaching compounded of such sweet and fine ideas of conduct, such mystical incomprehensibleness, such misleading inconsistency, that it remained a moral stimulus and an intellectual perplexity, a jungle for heresies and discoveries, for millions of souls for two millennia.