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Meaning of "photophil" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PHOTOPHIL

photophil  [ˈfəʊtəʊˌfɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PHOTOPHIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Photophil is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PHOTOPHIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of photophil in the English dictionary

The definition of photophil in the dictionary is an organism, such as a plant, that seeks, thrives on and requires strong light.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PHOTOPHIL


acidophil
ˈæsɪdəʊˌfɪl
anglophil
ˈæŋɡləʊˌfɪl
audiophil
ˈɔːdɪəʊˌfɪl
backfill
ˈbækˌfɪl
cataphyll
ˈkætəˌfɪl
eosinophil
ˌiːəʊˈsɪnəˌfɪl
fiberfill
ˈfaɪbəˌfɪl
fibrefill
ˈfaɪbəˌfɪl
Germanophil
dʒɜːˈmænəˌfɪl
heterophil
ˈhetərəˌfɪl
hypsophyll
ˈhɪpsəʊˌfɪl
landfill
ˈlændˌfɪl
mesophyll
ˈmɛsəʊˌfɪl
multifil
ˈmʌltɪˌfɪl
neutrophil
ˈnjuːtrəˌfɪl
oxyphil
ˈɒksɪˌfɪl
rheophil
ˈriːəˌfɪl
Russophil
ˈrʌsəʊˌfɪl
sclerophyll
ˈsklɛrəʊˌfɪl
thermophil
ˈθɜːməʊˌfɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PHOTOPHIL

photoperiod
photoperiodic
photoperiodically
photoperiodism
photophase
photophilic
photophilous
photophily
photophobe
photophobia
photophobic
photophone
photophonic
photophony
photophore
photophoreses
photophoresis
photopia
photopic
photoplay

WORDS THAT END LIKE PHOTOPHIL

arctophil
basophil
bibliophil
chromophil
Francophil
gerontophil
hygrophil
Negrophil
psammophil
scotophil
Slavophil
thiophil

Synonyms and antonyms of photophil in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «photophil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PHOTOPHIL

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The translations of photophil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «photophil» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

photophil
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Photophil
570 millions of speakers

English

photophil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

photophil
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

photophil
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

photophil
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Photophil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

photophil
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

photophil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Photophil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Photophil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

photophil
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

photophil
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Photophil
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

photophil
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

photophil
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

छायाचित्रण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

photophil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Photophil
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

photophil
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

photophil
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

photophil
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

photophil
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

photophil
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

photophil
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

photophil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of photophil

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOPHIL»

The term «photophil» is used very little and occupies the 184.432 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PHOTOPHIL» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PHOTOPHIL»

Discover the use of photophil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to photophil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar
Short-day effects were seen to result when light was restricted to the photophil, while long-day effects were produced when light encroached into scotophil ( figure 1.2). In this model, light has two roles: entrainment of the circadian clock to 24 h ...
Randy J. Nelson, David L. Denlinger, David E. Somers, 2009
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Hormone Action in the Whole Life of Plants
Kenneth Vivian Thimann. Photophil Photophobe Photophil Photophobe Photophil Photophobe IE 100 r 8 hour photoperiod • 64 hour experimental dark period - 11-3 Soybean plants on a 72-hour cycle, with 8 hours of light and then 4- hour ...
Kenneth Vivian Thimann, 1977
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Pigment of the Imagination: A History of Phytochrome Research
... innocuous, or stimulatory to flowering depending upon its time of occurrence in the cycle” (Coulter and Hamner, 1964). Cumming's work with Chenopodium proved this point more rigorously, because he PHOTOPHIL PHOTOPHOBE ...
Linda C. Sage, 1992
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Insect Clocks, Third Edition
The first 12 hours constituted a photophil or Tight-requiring' half-cycle and the second 12 hours a scotophil or 'dark-requiring' half-cycle. Short-day effects were thus produced when the light was restricted to the photophil, but long-day effects  ...
D.S. Saunders, C.G.H. Steel, X. Vafopoulou, R.D. Lewis, 2002
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Light and Plant Responses: A Study of Plant Photophysiology ...
The external coincidence model is a development of the Bunning hypothesis which suggests that plants oscillate between two 12-h phases, the photophil and the skotophil. Light in the photophil promotes and light in the skotophil, or dark ...
T. H. Attridge, 1990
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Biological Timekeeping
The first 1 2 h constituted the 'photophil' or light-requiring half-cycle, and the second 12 h the ' scotophil ' or dark-requiring half-cycle. Short-day effects were produced when the daylight was restricted to the photophil, but long-day effects when ...
John Brady, 1982
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Proceedings
As a dominant species of the reef edge, it is equally a typical stenophote- photophil-rheophil indicator species (1, 3). The vicarious species in the Caribbean Sea is Millepora alcicornis . However, it has not attained a rank as an indicator- resp.
Smithsonian Institution, Geological Survey (U.S.), 1977
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Science progress
The concept of photophil and skotophil phases remains fundamentally sound despite the new observations, but the connotations of this terminology may perhaps now inhibit understanding of the dual role of light in photoperiodic responses.
‎1975
9
Lectures on photomorphogenesis
The endogenous rhythm determines the changing sensitivity of the plant to Pfr, involving both quantitative and qualitative changes (photophil and photophobe pha- seswith respect toP(r and with respectto flowering). Using the short-day plant ...
Hans Mohr, 1972
10
Phytocoenologia
Assoz.: Riccio-Pseudocrossidietum hornschuchiani ass. nov. (Photophil, auf flachen kalkigen Böden zwischen Felsplatten) Assoz.: Crossidio crassinervis- Aloinetum aloidis ass. nov. (Meso-xerophil, photophil, auf kalkig-mergeligen Böden, v.a. ...
‎1990

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PHOTOPHIL»

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All Rights Reserved, For Usage Rights Please contact Phil at "Http://www.photophil.us". Philip Burnett. Fullscreen. Lincoln City Beach Lincoln ... «kgw.com, Apr 15»

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