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anthropophylic

anthropophylic is the misspelling of anthropophilic.

Meaning of anthropophilic

Adjective

anthropophilic (comparative more anthropophilic, superlative most anthropophilic)

  1. Preferring human beings to other animals. It especially alludes to (i) bloodsucking arthropods such as mosquitos, denoting the preference of a parasite for the human host as a source of blood or tissues over an animal host; and (ii) dermatophytic fungi which grow preferentially on humans.
    Synonyms:
    androphilous

Questions about anthropophylic

What is anthropophylic the misspelling of?
Anthropophylic is the misspelling of anthropophilic.

Words near anthropophylic in the dictionary

  1. anthropophobics
  2. anthropophonic
  3. anthropophonics
  4. anthropophony
  5. anthropophuistic
  6. anthropophylic
  7. anthropophyte
  8. anthropophytes
  9. anthropopoeia
  10. anthropopoiesis
  11. anthropopression

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Adapted from Wiktionary: anthropophylic (page history and authors); anthropophilic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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