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▸ adjective: Preferring human beings to other animals. It especially alludes to (i) bloodsucking arthropods such as mosquitos, denoting the preference of a parasite for the human host as a source of blood or tissues over an animal host; and (ii) dermatophytic fungi which grow preferentially on humans.
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▸ adjective: Preferring human beings to other animals. It especially alludes to (i) bloodsucking arthropods such as mosquitos, denoting the preference of a parasite for the human host as a source of blood or tissues over an animal host; and (ii) dermatophytic fungi which grow preferentially on humans.
Similar:
anthropophylic,
anthropophilous,
anthrophilic,
androphilous,
mammalophagic,
anthropomorphological,
anthropoidal,
anthropotropic,
blood-sucking,
primatophilic,
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