potamophilous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

potamo- +‎ -philous

Adjective[edit]

potamophilous (comparative more potamophilous, superlative most potamophilous)

  1. Loving or having an affinity towards rivers.
    • 1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment[1], page 331:
      Side arms provide slow-flowing water bodies that allow the development of aquatic vegetation used as spawning substrate by several limnophilous and potamophilous species, such as white bream, pike and tench.

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