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endophilic

endophilic adjective: living inside an enclosed space such as a burrow, crack, cave, or building, as opposed to outdoors.

Adjective

endophilic (not comparable)

  1. Living inside an enclosed space such as a burrow, crack, cave, or building, as opposed to outdoors.
    • Therefore, they are more vulnerable to mosquito bites than others because mosquitoes are both exophilic and endophilic in Dielmo.2015 May 13, Amélé N Wotodjo et al., “The implication of long-lasting insecticide-treated net use in the resurgence of malaria morbidity in a Senegal malaria endemic village in 2010–2011”, in...
    Antonyms:
    exophilic

Antonyms of endophilic

Origin of endophilic

From endo- + -philic.

Questions about endophilic

What does endophilic mean?
Endophilic means living inside an enclosed space such as a burrow, crack, cave, or building, as opposed to outdoors.
What part of speech is endophilic?
Endophilic is an adjective.

Words near endophilic in the dictionary

  1. endophenotypes
  2. endophenotypic
  3. endophenotypical
  4. endophenotypically
  5. endophenotyping
  6. endophilic
  7. endophilicity
  8. endophilin
  9. endophilins
  10. endophilous
  11. endophily

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