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Meaning of "scotophil" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SCOTOPHIL

scotophil  [ˈskɒtəˌfɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SCOTOPHIL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Scotophil is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SCOTOPHIL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of scotophil in the English dictionary

The definition of scotophil in the dictionary is liking or thriving in darkness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SCOTOPHIL


acidophil
ˈæsɪdəʊˌfɪl
arctophil
ˈɑːktəˌfɪl
audiophil
ˈɔːdɪəʊˌfɪl
backfill
ˈbækˌfɪl
cataphyll
ˈkætəˌfɪl
eosinophil
ˌiːəʊˈsɪnəˌfɪl
fiberfill
ˈfaɪbəˌfɪl
fibrefill
ˈfaɪbəˌfɪl
Germanophil
dʒɜːˈmænəˌfɪl
gerontophil
dʒɛˈrɒntəˌfɪl
heterophil
ˈhetərəˌfɪl
hygrophil
ˈhaɪɡrəˌfɪl
hypsophyll
ˈhɪpsəʊˌfɪl
landfill
ˈlændˌfɪl
mesophyll
ˈmɛsəʊˌfɪl
multifil
ˈmʌltɪˌfɪl
neutrophil
ˈnjuːtrəˌfɪl
ombrophil
ˈɒmbrəˌfɪl
rheophil
ˈriːəˌfɪl
sclerophyll
ˈsklɛrəʊˌfɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SCOTOPHIL

scoter
scotia
Scotism
Scotist
Scotistic
Scotland
Scotland Yard
scotodinia
scotoma
scotomata
scotomatous
scotometer
scotomia
scotomy
scotopia
scotopic

WORDS THAT END LIKE SCOTOPHIL

anglophil
basophil
bibliophil
chromophil
Francophil
Negrophil
photophil
psammophil
Russophil
Slavophil
thermophil
thiophil

Synonyms and antonyms of scotophil in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «scotophil» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SCOTOPHIL

Find out the translation of scotophil to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of scotophil from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «scotophil» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

scotophil
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

scotophil
570 millions of speakers

English

scotophil
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

scotophil
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

scotophil
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

scotophil
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

scotophil
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

scotophil
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

scotophil
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Scotophil
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

scotophil
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

scotophil
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

scotophil
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Scotophil
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

scotophil
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

scotophil
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्कॉटोफिल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

scotophil
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scotophil
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

scotophil
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

scotophil
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

scotophil
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

scotophil
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

scotophil
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

scotophil
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

scotophil
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of scotophil

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SCOTOPHIL»

The term «scotophil» is barely ever used and occupies the 209.486 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SCOTOPHIL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about scotophil

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCOTOPHIL»

Discover the use of scotophil in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to scotophil and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
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
2
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
3
Photoperiodic Regulation of Insect and Molluscan Hormones
The first—usually dubbed 'external coincidence'-—-includes Bi'1nning's original ( 1936) formulation of photophil and scotophil halves of the circadian cycle and the somewhat more explicit formulation by Pittendrigh & Minis in 1964.
CIBA Foundation Symposium, 2009
4
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
5
Insect Photoperiodism
The first half of the cycle (the tension phase) is called the photophil, and the second half (relaxation phase) the scotophil. Determination of developmental pathways is made on the basis of whether or not the photophase impinges on the early ...
Stanley D. Beck, 2012
6
CRC handbook of flowering
Glucose caused some inhibition of flowering when applied for only the initial scotophil phase of darkness (0 to 9 hr), but there was no comparable effect of sucrose even though its equivalent molarity (0.6 M) represented a higher percentage ...
Abraham H. Halevy, 1990
7
TheLiving Clocks.
(In other words, photophil is equivalent to the day phase and scotophil the night phase of a circadian rhythm). He suggested that as the length of day changed, the early scotophil would be illuminated or not, according to the season. When the ...
Ritchie R. Ward, 1971
8
The physiology of Insecta
A, the free-running clock in DD, or LL; B, under short days the light does not extend into the second, scotophil, half cycle whereas in C it does. (From Pittendrigh and Minis, 1964, after Biinning, I960.) had no such diapause- preventing effect.
Morris Rockstein, 1974
9
A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes
... Scotophil us Bellini (W. India), VIPs. Azurites and V. barbastellus, both found from England to India. Rodentia.—A squirrel (Scours Syracuse?); Muss Indices and M. Gerbellinus; a jerboa (Dipus talcum?); Alactaga Bactrian; Gerbillus Indices, ...
Hamid Wahed Alikuzai, 2013
10
The Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Flowering
He suggested that the circadian clock consisted of two half cycles, photophil and scotophil. When light was received in the scotophilic phase, the daily cycle was perceived as an LD, but the absence of light during the scotophilic phase ...
Brian R. Jordan, 2006

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Scotophil [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/scotophil>. Apr 2024 ».
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