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单词 geophilous
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geophilousadj.

Brit. /dʒɪˈɒfᵻləs/, /dʒɪˈɒfl̩əs/, U.S. /dʒiˈɑfələs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: geo- comb. form, -philous comb. form.
Etymology: < geo- comb. form + -philous comb. form, after post-classical Latin geophilus (1799 or earlier; in scientific Latin from 1801 as specific epithet in mycology). Compare scientific Latin Geophila (1803 as genus name in botany; 1812 as name of a group of molluscs), Geophilus (1814 as genus name in zoology), French géophile (1803 or earlier as specific epithet in mycology).
Chiefly Zoology.
Terrestrial; living on or close to the ground; (of fungi) geophilic. Cf. geophilic adj. 2.
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1854 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 372/1 Geophilus, earth-loving; applied to plants that grow on the earth, as the Agaricus geophilus..: geophilous.
1870 Sci. Opinion 19 Jan. 79/2 They argue, upon odontological grounds, that the present position of the family—viz., with the Agnathous group of Geophilous mollusks—cannot be maintained.
1904 A. P. Morse Res. N. Amer. Acridiidæ 14 Geophilous locusts are those which freely come into direct contact with the soil.
1937 Ecology 18 247 A classification of locust societies based upon a primary division into geophilous and phytophilous groups.
2005 Jrnl. Orthoptera Res. 14 38/2 Most flightless acridids in wet forest, apart from geophilous species, are brightly colored.
2008 O. S. Kukovinets et al. Chem. & Physical Methods protecting Biopolymers xvii. 171 Natural neurotoxins..obtained as a result of microbiological synthesis from geophilous fungus Streptomyces avermitilis.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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