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hydrophiles

hydrophiles is the plural 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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Questions about hydrophiles

What is hydrophiles the plural of?
Hydrophiles is the plural of hydrophile.

Words near hydrophiles in the dictionary

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

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