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Definition of Coprophilous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coprophilous
Literary usage of Coprophilous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"... brief visit to Jamaica in the winter of 1890-91, the writer obtained, among
numerous other interesting coprophilous forms, two peculiar genera of ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences by American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1902)
"Saprophytic, usually coprophilous, organisms, having two definitely recurring
stages, — a vegetative period, in which independent ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"This is not an uncommon fungus in grassy spots, but our modern English floras do
not record it as a coprophilous form. It sprang up on horse-dung in the ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"coprophilous Fungi. Abstract of Address delivered Vegetation of the Higher Peaks
of the South-Western Region of the at Cadeby, September 23, 1901, ..."
5. Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Trees by George Massee (1915)
"The spores are ejected from the asci in a compact mass enclosed in mucilage, as
in many species of coprophilous fungi. Treatment the same as for ..."
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