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exophilic

exophilic adjective: living outside of human habitations.

Adjective

exophilic (not comparable)

  1. Living outside of human habitations
    • 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...

Origin of exophilic

From exo- + -philic.

Questions about exophilic

What does exophilic mean?
Exophilic means living outside of human habitations.
What part of speech is exophilic?
Exophilic is an adjective.

Words near exophilic in the dictionary

  1. exophagous
  2. exophagy
  3. exophasia
  4. exophenotype
  5. exophenotypes
  6. exophilic
  7. exophily
  8. exophobic
  9. exophonic
  10. exophony
  11. exophora

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