"photophil" meaning in English

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          "text": "Coordinate term: skotophil"
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          "ref": "1975, Science progress - Volume 62, page 120:",
          "text": "It will be seen that light at one phase of the rhythm promoted flowering, and at the other phase inhibited it; thus there was a distinct manifestation of photophil and skotophil phases.",
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          "ref": "2010, Randy J. Nelson, David L. Denlinger, David E. Somers, Photoperiodism: The Biological Calendar, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "Short-day effects were seen to result when light was restricted to the photophil, while long-day effects were produced when light encroached into scotophil (figure 1.2).",
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          "ref": "2013, Beatrice M. Sweeney, Rhythmic Phenomena in Plants, →ISBN, page 118:",
          "text": "He postulated that light falling on the plant in the scotophil phase would inhibit flowering, and in the photophil phase, enhance flower production.",
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        "The phase of a two-phase circadian rhythm associated with light and expenditure of energy."
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          "energy",
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "photophile"
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  "word": "photophil"
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          "text": "Coordinate term: skotophil"
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