Meaning

2 senses

  1. A feces-loving organism.

  2. An organism (typically microorganisms and fungi) living off or growing in dung or other fecal matter.

Origin

From copro- (“dung”) + -phile (“loving”).

From copro- (“dung”) + -phile (“loving”).

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Forms

plural: coprophiles
Singularcoprophile
Pluralcoprophiles

regular

Word family

4 related words
Relatedcoprophagistcoprophiliaccoprophiliccoprophilous

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
copiouscopperB2copyA1copycat

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