"cactophile" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1985, Hot Deserts and Arid Shrublands, Part 1, page 163:",
          "text": "Other insects are cactophiles, including Homoptera such as the cactus dodger (Cacama valvata) […]",
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          "ref": "2002, Nancy B. Simmons, “Phylogeny and Convergence in Cactophilic Bats”, in Theodore H. Fleming, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, editors, Columnar Cacti and Their Mutualists: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation, page 89:",
          "text": "Phyllostomus discolor is an opportunistic cactophile that occasionally visits flowering columnar cacti in the Venezuelan Andes (Sosa and Soriano, 1996) .",
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          "text": "Although not all cactophiles live in deserts, they and their host plants tend to inhabit dry regions.",
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        "An animal which lives in or feeds on cacti."
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        "(biology) An animal which lives in or feeds on cacti."
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          "ref": "1984, Del Weniger, Cacti of Texas and Neighboring States: A Field Guide, page 159:",
          "text": "As a group they present all of the challenges in collecting, classifying, and culturing cacti which the most ardent cactophile can desire.",
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          "ref": "2005, Cactus and Succulent Journal, volume 77, numbers 1-6, page 56:",
          "text": "I'm a cactophile yet my favorite plant (I define favorite as the one plant that will make me cry should it ever leave me for the great botanists in the sky) is a Haemantha albiflos.",
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          "ref": "2020, John Bagnasco, Bob Reidmuller Jr., Succulents: Choosing, Growing, and Caring for Cactuses and Other Succulents, page 112:",
          "text": "Googly eyes are often added to this plant as a novelty. One look at it captures the imagination of every cactophile.",
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