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potamophilous

potamophilous adjective: loving or having an affinity towards rivers.

Adjective

potamophilous (comparative more potamophilous, superlative most potamophilous)

  1. Loving or having an affinity towards rivers.
    • Side arms provide slow-flowing water bodies that allow the development of aquatic vegetation used as spawning substrate by several limnophilous and potamophilous species, such as white bream, pike and tench.1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment, page 331

Forms of potamophilous

comparativemore potamophilous
superlativemost potamophilous

Origin of potamophilous

From potamo- + -philous.

Questions about potamophilous

What does potamophilous mean?
Potamophilous means loving or having an affinity towards rivers.
What part of speech is potamophilous?
Potamophilous is an adjective.

Words near potamophilous in the dictionary

  1. potamonids
  2. potamonym
  3. potamonyms
  4. potamophile
  5. potamophiles
  6. potamophilous
  7. potamophobia
  8. potamoplankton
  9. potamoplanktons
  10. potamotrygonid
  11. potamotrygonids

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