neutrophilousadj.
/njuːˈtrɒfᵻləs/, U.S. /n(j)uˈtrɑfələs/ 1. Biology and Medicine. = neutrophil adj. rare.
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basophil1890
neutrophil1890
neutrophilic1893
oxyphil1893
oxyphilous1893
basophilic1894
basophilous1894
metachromatic1894
polychromatophilic1897
polychromatophil1898
chromophil1899
chromophilic1899
chromophobic1899
orthochromatic1899
polychromatic1899
pycnomorphous1899
fuchsinophil1900
neutrophilous1900
carminophilous1901
chromatoid1901
oxyphilic1901
pyknotic1902
sudanophil1902
chromaffin1903
metachromic1908
chromophobe1909
phaeochrome1909
sudanophilic1909
trachychromatic1909
polychromasic1911
chromaffinic1913
osmiophilic1923
osmophile1923
Feulgen-negative1928
fuchsinophilic1931
heteropycnotic1934
osmophilic1936
isopycnotic1950
Feulgen-positive1954
1900 Appletons' Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 380 The most abundant..are those called the polynuclear, neutrophilous leucocytes.
1907 H. Salomon in C. von Noorden et al. Metabolism & Pract. Med. III. xv. 1211 Probably it is on all-fours with the increase in the neutrophilous polynuclear leucocytes.
2. Botany. Of plants: growing best in conditions of neutral soil pH. Cf. neutrophil adj. 2.
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1927 E. T. Wherry in Biol. Abstr. 1 19/2 This must be supplemented by considering plants as acidophilous, alkalinophilous, neutrophilous, or indifferent to reaction.
1943 Ecology 24 214/2 These are the most acid conditions under which tupelo gum, a supposedly neutrophilous species, has been encountered.
1992 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 19 200/1 The number of woodland myrmecochores depends only on the distance from an ancient neutrophilous woodland and on the age of the secondary wood.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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