Definition of Pyrophile. Meaning of Pyrophile. Synonyms of Pyrophile

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- A pyrophile or pyrophilic/pyrophilous insect is an insect which has evolved to rely upon fire ecology for important parts of their life cycle. Pyrophiles...
- hence encourage the incidence of fires which are beneficial to them. "Pyrophile" plants are plants which require fire in order to complete their cycle...
- detection. 1964: W. G. Evans discovered infrared thermoreceptors in a pyrophile beetle. 1965: First IR handbook; first commercial imagers (Barnes, Agema...
- narrowest near the proximal end, the base, where the stalk, if any, attaches. pyrophile Plants which need fire for their reproduction. pyrophyte Plants which...