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chromophilia

chromophilia is the alternative form of chromatophilia.

Meaning of chromatophilia

Noun

chromatophilia (uncountable)

  1. The property of a cell that readily stains with an appropriate dye

Origin of chromophilia

From chromo- + -philia.

Questions about chromophilia

What is chromophilia the alternative form of?
Chromophilia is the alternative form of chromatophilia.

Words near chromophilia in the dictionary

  1. chromophane
  2. chromophanes
  3. chromophil
  4. chromophile
  5. chromophiles
  6. chromophilia
  7. chromophilic
  8. chromophilous
  9. chromophils
  10. chromophobe
  11. chromophobes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chromophilia (page history and authors); chromatophilia (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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