"pelophilous" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1913, Gerald O. Case, The Use of Vegetation for Reclaiming Tidal Lands, page ii:",
          "text": "The hallophitic communities are divided into those that are psammaphilous, pelophilous, and helophilous, according as the substratum consists respectively of sand, of mud, or of swamp.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43:",
          "text": "Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Pilar Rodriguez, Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII, page 225:",
          "text": "Thus, two major ecological groupings are evident: the pelophilous group preferring soft sediments with slow current (strongly dominated by L. hoffmeisteri), and the psammophilous group inhabiting harder sediments with faster current (P. barbatus and others).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Norbert Wolnomiejski, Zbigniew Witek, The Szczecin Lagoon Ecosystem:",
          "text": "Over the entrie 5-year period of the present study (1998-2002), the pelophilous macrofauna showed a moderate biomass, similar to that in 1975/76 and 1987-1992.",
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        "Found in muddy environments; mud-dwelling."
      ],
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          "muddy",
          "muddy"
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          "mud-dwelling",
          "mud-dwelling"
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        "(biology) Found in muddy environments; mud-dwelling."
      ],
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        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
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  "word": "pelophilous"
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          "ref": "1913, Gerald O. Case, The Use of Vegetation for Reclaiming Tidal Lands, page ii:",
          "text": "The hallophitic communities are divided into those that are psammaphilous, pelophilous, and helophilous, according as the substratum consists respectively of sand, of mud, or of swamp.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43:",
          "text": "Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Pilar Rodriguez, Piet F.M. Verdonschot, Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VIII, page 225:",
          "text": "Thus, two major ecological groupings are evident: the pelophilous group preferring soft sediments with slow current (strongly dominated by L. hoffmeisteri), and the psammophilous group inhabiting harder sediments with faster current (P. barbatus and others).",
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        },
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      ],
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        "(biology) Found in muddy environments; mud-dwelling."
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