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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Loving light; specifically, pertaining to the movement of organisms toward a more intensely illuminated area or exhibiting such movement; exhibiting positive photopathy or phototaxis.
  • noun A micro-organism or cell which exhibits positive phototaxis.

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