a. Nat. Hist. [f. L. lūcifug-us, f. lūc(i)-, lūx light + fug-ĕre to fly: see -OUS.] Shunning the light.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. vi.–vii. 211. Such designes as these were Lucifugous, and would not endure the face of Heaven.
1655. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. (1701), 14/1. These ill Dæmons … Aquatile, and Subterraneous, and Lucifugous.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, II. 121, note. Lucifugous Nycticoraces.
1835–6. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 599/2. The habits of which [animals] are more completely lucifugous and retired than any others.
1865. Oakeley, Hist. Notes, 36. Owls and bats and other such shy and lucifugous creatures.
So Lucifugal a., in the same sense.
1889. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
