adj. 1. 1 growing well in an acid medium; said of some bacteria
Syn. -- aciduric [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus comprising the geometrid moths.
Syn. -- genus Alsophila. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. pollinated by the wind; -- of flowering plants; especially grasses etc. entomophilous [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nemos wind + fi`los lover. ] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind-Fertilized. Lubbock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an admirer of England and things English.
Syn. -- anglophil [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. exaggerated admiration for England and English customs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to Anglophilia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. 'a`nqos flower + fi`los loving. ] (Zool.) Lit., fond of flowers; hence, feeding upon, or living among, flowers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Med.) Efficacious against syphilis. -- n. A medicine for syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; not loving man; 'a priv. + &unr_; to love + &unr_; man. ] Want of love to mankind; -- the opposite of philanthropy. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; book + &unr_; to love: cf. F. bibliophile. ] A lover of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Love of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lover of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Doctor of Philosophy, a British doctorate.
Syn. -- Doctor of Philosophy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a natural family of insects including some of those called fruit flies.
Syn. -- family Drosophilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; insect + &unr_; a lover. ] (Bot.) Fertilized by the agency of insects; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. An admirer of France and everything French. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The type genus of the Gasterophilidae, comprising the horse botflies.
Syn. -- genus Gasterophilus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. ge`a, gh^, earth + &unr_; to love. ] (Zool.) The division of Mollusca which includes the land snails and slugs.

n. A natural family of small extremely elongate earth-living centipedes.
Syn. -- family Geophilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an order of myriopod arthropods containing elongated centipedes living in soil and under stones and having more than 30 pairs of legs.
Syn. -- order Geophilomorpha. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The type type genus of the Geophilidae, a cosmopolitan genus of centipedes sometimes called earwigs.
Syn. -- genus Geophilus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + filei^n to love. ] (Zool.) A division of Chiroptera, including the bloodsucking bats. See Vampire. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood + filei^n to love. ] (Med.) Same as hemophilia; -- an obsolete term. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. a"i^ma, blood + filei^n to love.] (Med.) A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse and uncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds; it is caused by an absence or abnormality of a clotting factor in the blood, and is a recessive genetic disease linked to the X-chromosome, and therefore usually occurs only in males; there are several specific forms. It may be treated by administering purified clotting factor. It was formerly termed Hematophilia. [1913 Webster +PJC]

n. A person afflicted with hemophilia; called also hemophile. [ PJC ]

a. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophilic. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or afflicted with hemophilia; hemophiliac.
Syn. -- haemophilic, hemophiliac. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. (Microbiology) Growing best in a medium containing blood, or in blood; -- of bacteria. [ PJC ]

n. [ Gr. "i`ppos horse + &unr_; to love.] One who loves horses. Holmes. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. e'ikw`n an image + &unr_; to love. ] A student, or lover of the study, of iconography. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Chem.) having an affinity for lipids; -- of chemical substances or parts of molecules. Contrasted to lipophobic or polar.
Syn. -- lipotropic, nonpolar. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Lithium + Gr. fi`los friend. ] (Min.) A phosphate of manganese and lithium; a variety of triphylite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a fabled drink credited with magical power; it can make the one who takes it love the one who gave it.
Syn. -- philter, philtre, love-potion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. same as lyophilize.
Syn. -- lyophilize, freeze-dry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. same as lyophilized.
Syn. -- lyophilized, freeze-dried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. to freeze-dry; -- a technique used to dry serum, tissue, unstable chemicals and other sensitive materials. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. dried by freezing and subsequent evaporation of the water in a high vacuum; -- used of tissue or blood or serum or other biological or sensitive substances.
Syn. -- lyophilised, freeze-dried. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Biol.) An organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. (Biol.) Associated with, or benefitted by ants through sharing their nest. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Nemophily. ] One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of the woods. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ne`mos wooded pasture, glade + filei^n to love. ] Fondness for forest scenery; love of the woods. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ Heb. n&ebreve_;phīlīm. ] Giants. Gen. vi. 4. Num. xiii. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ L. neuter + Gr. &unr_; loving. ] (Physiol.) One of a group of leukocytes whose granules stain only with neutral dyes; it is the chief phagocytic leukocyte in the circulating blood, comprising from 54% to 65% of the total number of leukocytes. -- Neu"tro*phil"ic a., Neu*troph"i*lous a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

adj. 1. not philosophical. Opposite of philosophical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. ny`x, nykto`s, night + &unr_; to love. ] (Zool.) Any Australian bat of the genus Nyctophilus, having a very simple nasal appendage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. o'i^nos wine + &unr_; to love. ] A lover of wine. [ R. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A person who has pedophilia.
Syn. -- pedophiliac. [ PJC ]

n. A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners. [ PJC ]

n. Same as pedophile.
Syn. -- pedophile. [ PJC ]