potamophilous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]potamophilous (comparative more potamophilous, superlative most potamophilous)
- Loving or having an affinity towards rivers.
- 1998, Peter C. Klingeman, Gravel-bed Rivers in the Environment[1], page 331:
- 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.