Usually means: Avoids light; typically active nocturnally.
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▸ adjective:  Having a dislike of light, particularly from the sun.
▸ adjective:  nocturnal

Similar:
lucifugus, luciform, noctilucous, Sun-like, owly-eyed, infuscated, sunlike, sunburnt, lucid, dark, more...

Opposite:
photophilic, heliophilous, heliotropic

Types:
nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular, cathemeral, more...

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Similar:
lucifugus, luciform, noctilucous, Sun-like, owly-eyed, infuscated, sunlike, sunburnt, lucid, dark, more...

Opposite:
photophilic, heliophilous, heliotropic

Types:
nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular, cathemeral, more...



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