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hydrophil

hydrophil is the obsolete form of hydrophile.

hydrophil is the dated form of hydrophile.

Meaning of hydrophile

Noun

hydrophile (plural hydrophiles)

  1. Any hydrophilic substance.
  2. Any organism that thrives in the presence of water.
    • Hydrophiles usually retain flight capability because they must recolonize unstable habitats.1986, James Kenneth Liebherr, Cladistic Analysis of North American Platynini

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Forms of hydrophil

Noun
pluralhydrophils
Adjective
comparativemore hydrophil
superlativemost hydrophil

Questions about hydrophil

What is hydrophil the obsolete form of?
Hydrophil is the obsolete form of hydrophile.

Words near hydrophil in the dictionary

  1. hydrophids
  2. hydrophiid
  3. hydrophiids
  4. hydrophiine
  5. hydrophiines
  6. hydrophil
  7. hydrophile
  8. hydrophiles
  9. hydrophilia
  10. hydrophilic
  11. hydrophilically

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