photophilyn.
/fəʊˈtɒfᵻli/, U.S. /ˌfoʊˈtɑfəli/ Biology.
The condition of being photophilic or photophil; responsiveness to light; tendency to thrive in relatively intense light.
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phototaxis1893
photopathy1897
heliotaxis1898
phototropism1899
photokinesis1905
photonegativity1921
photostability1926
photophily1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Photophily.
1960 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 25 241/1 The phase of strongest responsiveness to temperature in both types coincides with maximum responsiveness to light..: with maximum photophily in long-day plants and maximum scotophily in short-day plants.
1974 Biol. Abstr. 57 762/1 An ecological scale of photophily was developed.
2004 Jrnl. Appl. Ichthyol. (Electronic ed.) 20 440 Both free-embryos and larvae inhabit the underside of aquatic vegetation in lentic areas and low-to-medium oxygen conditions, the embryos being photophobic after eye pigmentation followed by photophily at the onset of exogenous feeding.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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