cactophile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who is especially fond of cacti.
Example Sentences
- "Other insects are cactophiles, including Homoptera such as the cactus dodger (Cacama valvata) […]"
- "Phyllostomus discolor is an opportunistic cactophile that occasionally visits flowering columnar cacti in the Venezuelan Andes (Sosa and Soriano, 1996) ."
- "Although not all cactophiles live in deserts, they and their host plants tend to inhabit dry regions."
- "As a group they present all of the challenges in collecting, classifying, and culturing cacti which the most ardent cactophile can desire."
- "I'm a cactophile yet my favorite plant (I define favorite as the one plant that will make me cry should it ever leave me for the great botanists in the sky) is a Haemantha albiflos."
- "Googly eyes are often added to this plant as a novelty. One look at it captures the imagination of every cactophile."
Etymology
From cacto- + -phile.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: cacto-