Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The tendency of an individual to return to, or stay in, its home area, or birthplace.
Examples
“These results reflect the fact that current long -- distance dispersal is limited and that there is considerable philopatry of female eiders to nesting and wintering areas [48].”
“Since the sifaka society is characterized by female dominance and philopatry”
“Moreover, the sifaka are characterized by female philopatry and social dominance and by the absence of male infant care”
“Seddon N, et al. (2005) Mating system, philopatry and patterns of kinship in the cooperatively breeding subdesert mesite”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘philopatry’.
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Logophily: Words with "phil"
List of words containing the string phil-, -phil-, -phil, or -phile, such as philopatry, bibliophile, and neutrophil.
Greek: φιλία/φίλος, φιλια-/φιλο - love, loving, love of, fondness for, at...philopatry, bibliophile, neutrophil, thalassophily, stegophilist, philoxeny, psychrophile, logophily, photophilia, photophilous, heliophilous, philornithic and 148 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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philosophia obscura
a collection of strange, unusual, hidden and forgotten ideas and beliefs
xenophanean, ailuromancy, philology, scop, spagyric, obeah, tref, anhedonia, syssitia, dybbuk, helot, nescience and 6 more...
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work these into conversation
Challenge!
legerdemain, polysemic, rupestrian, callipygian, oscitancy, numen, lucubration, asperity, amalgam, apposite, wastrel, eleemosynary and 208 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
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wordies
apple-howling, аппаратчик, perjinkities, katzenjammer, prorogue, henotheistic, wiggedy wack, twiss, concinnity, freeball, lywed, procrastokinetics and 76 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir (n): generally, the tendency of an individual to remain in, or return to, its place of birth or home range/area.
cf. homebody, patrophily Jan 4, 2009