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Definition of Aerophilous
1. Adjective. Depending on free oxygen or air. "Aerobic fermentation"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aerophilous
Literary usage of Aerophilous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"... term ' aerophilous,' which does not apply to the shoots of water-plants.
The essential point is that a shoot sometimes or always is adapted to darkness ..."
2. The Year-book of Treatment (1885)
"Augenheilk., June, 1883) attribute it to the action of an aerophilous microbe,
which they maintain can be cultivated and isolated. ..."