philo-, phil-, -phile, -philia, -philic, -philous, -phily, -philiac, -philist, -philism +

In biology, feeding on seeds.

In biology, dwelling on or among sphagnum (a kind of moss).

In biology, pollinated by hawk moths or nocturnal Lepidoptera [butterflies and moths].

In biology, living in clay soils.

A collector of signet rings.

In biology, thriving in stagnant water.

Tolerant of, or having a fondness for, only a narrow range of high temperatures.

In biology, thriving on moorlands.

In psychiatry, a sexual perversion in which sexual arousal and orgasm depend upon the partner being scarred, marked, tattooed, or pierced (especially in the genital or nipple region so bars, rings, etc. can be worn); the term also includes the person who must also be marked in the same manner.

A collector of owl forms or figures.

A reference to an organism that thrives in moist substrata.

In biology, thriving on moist substrata or sediment (subsoil), or the medium to which an organism is attached or upon which it grows.

In biology, preferring and thriving in moderately dry situations.

A collector of pairs of anything and everything.

1. An amicable relationship between one organism [the symphile] and its host colony of social insects.
2. An insect that lives with ants or other social insects as a guest in a relationship of symphilism.
3. A term for a kind of friendly symbiosis or commensalism existing between ants or termites and certain other insects; such as, certain beetles that they feed and tend as guests and which, in some cases, yield a sweet substance as food for the hosts.