geophile

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geophile (plural geophiles)

An organism that lives or thrives in soil.
- 2014, John Dighton, Interactions in Soil: Promoting Plant Growth, page 43:
  Thus, temporal inactive geophiles, such as the caterpillars of many butterfly species, only bury in the ground for nymphosis; even so they constitute an important food source for other edaphic species.