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corticophilous

corticophilous adjective: loving plant bark.

Adjective

corticophilous (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Loving plant bark.
    • The soil fauna and epigeon were classified and analysed in detail, while corticophilous, ripicolous and, synanthropic faunas were described.1981 September 30, Wanda Maria Weiner, “Collembola of the Pieniny National Park in Poland”, in Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, volume 25, number 18, page 417
    • (3) Pseudisotoma sensibilis and Xenylla boerneri are corticophilous springtails of hemiedaphic life form.1993, Roswitha Bauer, Erhard Christian, “Adaptations of three springtail species to granite boulder habitats (Collembola)”, in Pedobiologia, volume 37, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2026, page...

Origin of corticophilous

From cortico- + -philous.

Questions about corticophilous

What does corticophilous mean?
Corticophilous means loving plant bark.
What part of speech is corticophilous?
Corticophilous is an adjective.

Words near corticophilous in the dictionary

  1. corticonigral
  2. corticonuclear
  3. corticopapillary
  4. corticopeduncular
  5. corticopetal
  6. corticophilous
  7. corticophobia
  8. corticopontine
  9. corticopontocerebellar
  10. corticoprotein
  11. corticoproteins

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