selenophile

plural selenophiles

1. informalOne who is fond of or interested in the Moon.

   A selenophile, that's me. Are you a selenophile or a heliophile? A lunar lover or a solar lover?

   2008 September 2, Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless Light, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), →ISBN, page 303

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   Good news for sky watchers and selenophiles, tonight’s full moon is set to be the biggest and brightest of the year, according to NASA.

   2019 February 19, Wilder Davies, “Tonight's Super Snow Moon Will Be the Biggest Supermoon of 2019. Here's How to Watch”, in Time, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2022

   The celestial phenomenon is a must-see event for selenophiles hoping to see a total lunar eclipse and May’s full moon.

   2022 May 13, Joe Mario Pedersen, “Blood Flower Moon blossoms over Orlando during total lunar eclipse & full moon”, in Orlando Sentinel

2. biologySomething which tends to absorb selenium.

   The poisonvetches are obligate selenophiles and the selenium content accounts for their chief toxic effects.

   1998 March 23, Robert Alan Lewis, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology, CRC-Press, →ISBN, page 127

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   Accordingly, it seemed probable that by having X in Scheme 1 as SeR, then a selenophile such as copper(1) would promote the C-C bond formation as in Scheme 2 to yield the required systems.

   1991 January 1, Craig J. Hawker, Athena Philippides, Alan R. Battersby, “Selenomethylpyrroles: Their Use for Synthesis of Dipyrrylmethanes (Dipyrrins), Tripyranes and Bilanes”, in Journal of the Chemical Society, Perkin Transactions 1, →DOI