Pronounced: OP-ticks, noun
Notes: This word has a meaning of which I was unaware
Yesterday’s word
The word anthophilous means “feeding upon or living among flowers”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word is certainly an interesting one and may be worth dropping into a conversation. It came from the Greek word anthos (flower) and -philos (loving). I did recognize the second part of the word, but I was thinking of “anthro” for the first part and thus was wrong on my guess at the meaning. Other from the same area: “ornithophilous” flowers are those pollinated by birds (from the Greek word ornis [bird]), while “melittophilous” flowers are pollinated by bees (from the Greek word melitta [bee]).
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