释义 |
ornithophily|ɔːnɪˈθɒfɪlɪ| [f. ornitho- + -phily.] 1. Love of birds.
1884‘Basil’ Wearing of the Green I. iii. 44 Summers's opinion both of her practice and of her preaching of ornithophily. 2. Bot. [cf. mod.L. Ornithophilæ, name of a group of plants pollinated by birds (F. Delpino in H. Müller Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873) 15).] Pollination by birds.
1903W. R. Fisher tr. Schimper's Plant-Geogr. i. vi. 121 The ornithophily of a species of Erythrina was also established by Belt. 1970Watsonia VIII. 67 The plates (75 colour photographs, mainly of birds visiting flowers) are..illustrative of the importance of ornithophily in the U.S.A. 1975New Phytologist LXXIV. 368 Ornithophily is replaceable by autogamy. |