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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Biology Growing or functioning best in darkness: a scotophil phase in the circadian rhythm.

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  1. Greek skotos, darkness + -phil(e).

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‘scotophil’ has been looked up 315 times, added to 1 list, and has a Scrabble score of 16.