zoophilyn.
/zuːˈɒfᵻli/, /zəʊˈɒfᵻli/, /zuːˈɒfl̩i/, /zəʊˈɒfl̩i/, U.S. /zuˈɑfəli/, /zoʊˈɑfəli/ 1. Emotional attachment to, or love of, animals; opposition to cruelty to animals. Also occasionally: sexual attraction to, or activity with, animals. Now chiefly historical and somewhat rare.
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the world > animals > [noun] > love of
zoophily1830
zoophilism1867
1830 W. H. Drummond Humanity to Animals 47 It is gratifying to meet with the following traits of zoophily in the character of one of our great national saints.
1889 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Aug. 256/1 Old cats and dogs..are kept alive through a somewhat misguided philanthropy or rather zoophily.
1903 Month Aug. 214 The extremer advocates of Zoophily.
1976 Jrnl. Communication 26 40 In 1930 a law removed adultery, homosexuality, and zoophily from the [Danish] Penal Code.
2011 S. Pinker Better Angels of our Nature vii. 461 Zoophily can shade into misanthropy.
2. Ecology. Pollination by animals. Also: spec. pollination by vertebrate animals as distinct from insects. Cf. zoophilous adj. 1.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > pollination > involving particular type of agency
anemophily1879
acarophily1898
ornithophily1903
zoophily1904
hydrophily1920
zoochory1921
1904 J. C. Willis Man. & Dict. Flowering Plants & Ferns (ed. 2) 99 Zoophily, or pollination by animals other than insects, seems to occur in a number of plants.
1921 Jrnl. Bot., Brit. & Foreign 59 345 The flowers show considerable adaptation to zoophily.
1967 B. G. M. Jamieson & J. F. Reynols Trop. Plant Types xii. 225 Pollination is brought about by three main agents: wind, animals and water, the types being called respectively anemophily, zoophily and hydrophily.
2010 E. C. Evans & C. A. Butler Why do Bees Buzz? vi. 100 Vertebrate pollination (zoophily) is primarily accomplished by hummingbirds and bats.
3. Biology. The tendency of a parasitic organism (esp. a mosquito) to prefer feeding or living on animals rather than humans; the state of being zoophilic (zoophilic adj. 3). Cf. zoophilous adj. 2.
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1928 Exper. Station Rec. (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 58 262 The author first reviews earlier studies of the subject of zoophily in Anopheles.
1938 Jrnl. Parasitol. 24 93 There are thus among different species of mosquitoes degrees of zoophily and anthrophily.
1983 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 20 510 For simplicity in this discussion we have ignored the effect of zoophily, multiple feeding and the possibility that some individual flies may extend the duration of the gonotrophic cycle long enough to be infective after one cycle.
2002 Ambio 31 218/1 The high degree of zoophily coupled with the mostly outdoor feeding behavior during the summer, makes the likelihood for local malaria transmission by A[nopheles] messeae remote.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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