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zoophiles

zoophiles is the plural of zoophile.

Meaning of zoophile

Noun

zoophile (plural zoophiles)

  1. A person sexually attracted to non-human animals.
    Synonyms:
    zoosexual, zoo
  2. A person who in their ethical propositions puts animals on a level with humans.
    • It is not, after all, the 'anti-speciesist', the 'animal liberationist', the radical zoophile who 'attributes a mystical persona' to animals. We simply say that if it is wrong to cause avoidable distress then it is wrong to torture, enslave and kill creatures not of our species for our own...1976, W. Lane-Petter, “The Ethics of Animal Experimentation”, in Journal of Medical Ethics, volume 2, number 3, page 126
  3. (broadly, derogatory, nonstandard) A furry (member of the furry fandom)

Questions about zoophiles

What is zoophiles the plural of?
Zoophiles is the plural of zoophile.

Words near zoophiles in the dictionary

  1. zoopharmacognosy
  2. zoopharmacological
  3. zoopharmacology
  4. zoopharmacy
  5. zoophile
  6. zoophiles
  7. zoophilia
  8. zoophilias
  9. zoophilic
  10. zoophilism
  11. zoophilist

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