Meanings
adjectivelimnophilous (comparative more limnophilous, superlative most limnophilous)
comparative more limnophilous · superlative most limnophilous
- Loving or having an affinity towards lakes.
Side arms provide slow-flowing water bodies that allow the development of aquatic vegetation used as spawning substrate by several limnophilous and potamophilous species, such as white bream, pike and tench.
1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment, page 331
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