potamophile
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which prefers or occurs only in freshwaters.
Example Sentences
- "Strombomonas is apparently a potamophile alga, but does occur in still waters."
- "Strombomonas species, which appear to be potamophiles, may be abundant farther downstream."
- "The first attempt at the classification of parasites of fishes by their reaction to salinity was made by Heitz (1918). He had divided the parasites into four groups: (1) the marine, occurring only in the sea; (2) the potamophile--only in freshwaters; (3) the marine-potamophile occurring more often in the sea than in freshwaters; (4) the potamophile-marine found more often in the sea than in freshwaters."
- "Yachting enthusiasts, potamophiles should request further detailed information and illustrated brochure from:[…]"
- "With further experience she quickly became a potamophile, to coin a needed term for those of us who are besotted by rivers."
- "But you don’t have to be a scientist to be a potamophile (someone who loves rivers). Anyone can exercise his potamophily (love of rivers) and his legs along the bank of his favorite river."
Etymology
From potamo- + -phile.