cactophile
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opportunistic
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occasionally
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noun
An animal which lives in or feeds on cacti.
Other insects are cactophiles, including Homoptera such as the cactus dodger (Cacama valvata) […]
Phyllostomus discolor is an opportunistic cactophile that occasionally visits flowering columnar cacti in the Venezuelan Andes (Sosa and Soriano, 1996) .
A person who is especially fond of cacti.
As a group they present all of the challenges in collecting, classifying, and culturing cacti which the most ardent cactophile can desire.
I'm a cactophile yet my favorite plant (I define favorite as the one plant that will make me cry should it ever leave me for the great botanists in the sky) is a Haemantha albiflos.
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3Other insects are cactophiles, including Homoptera such as the cactus dodger (Cacama valvata) […]
WiktionaryPhyllostomus discolor is an opportunistic cactophile that occasionally visits flowering columnar cacti in the Venezuelan Andes (Sosa and Soriano, 1996) .
WiktionaryAlthough not all cactophiles live in deserts, they and their host plants tend to inhabit dry regions.
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