ornithophilist
(ɔːnɪˈθɒfɪlɪst)
[f. ornitho- + Gr. ϕίλ-ος lover + -ist.]
A lover of birds.
| 1876 World V. 5 Like a true ornithophilist, Mr. Spurgeon likes birds, but likes them wild. |
So orniˈthophilite n. = ornithophilist (also attrib.). orniˈthophilous a., bird-loving; in Botany, applied to flowers fertilized by the agency of birds, chiefly humming-birds, which visit them for honey.
| 1859 L. F. Simpson Handbk. Dining vii. (ed. 3) 73 note, He never omitted this ornithophilite excursion. 1880 Gray Struct. Bot. 217 Ornithophilous—i.e. bird-fertilized—flowers are to be ranked with entomophilous. 1890 G. F. Scott-Elliott in Ann. Bot. IV. 265 (title) Ornithophilous flowers in South Africa. 1906 J. R. A. Davis tr. Knuth's Handbk. Flower Pollination I. 76 The following Cape plants are ornithophilous. 1975 New Phytologist LXXIV. 366 There are species [of giant lobelia] which are ornithophilous. |