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nounarenophile (plural arenophiles)
plural arenophiles
- biologyA plant that thrives in or requires a sandy environment to grow.
It seems to be a characteristic arenophile. Not common in Holderness except on the morainic gravels, being the chief plant on Coneygarth Hill, near Brandesburton.
1902, James Fraser Robinson, The Flora of the East Riding of Yorkshire, page 161
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