galanthophile
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: ga‧lan‧tho‧phile
Noun
galanthophile (plural galanthophiles)
- An enthusiastic collector of snowdrops.
- 2009 April 16, Anne Raver, “Learning to love snowdrops”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Mr. Lyman owns the Temple Nursery, a mail order business little known beyond the world of galanthophiles, or snowdrop lovers.
- 2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
- The world of snowdrop fanciers (galanthophiles) is full of headstrong egos. […] However, one gently spoken and quiet Gloucestershire galanthophile, Phil Cornish, sidesteps all that nonsense.