nyctophile

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who loves the night or darkness.
    — He reads—he writes—late into the night. It's his way. He's a night person. A 'nyctophile' he calls himself.
  2. Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus. archaic
    — Case 25. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of Java; the Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared bats of Europe; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scattered over different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America.

词形变化

nyctophiles plural

词汇关系

相关词
nyctophilia nyctophilic heliophile photophile

词源

From nycto- (“night”) + -phile.
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