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单词 anemochore
释义

anemochoren.

Brit. /əˈnɛmə(ʊ)kɔː/, U.S. /əˈnɛməˌkɔr/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Swedish lexical item. Etymons: anemo- comb. form, -chore comb. form.
Etymology: < anemo- comb. form + -chore comb. form, after Swedish anemochor, adjective ( R. Sernander Den Skandinaviska Vegetationens Spridningsbiologi (1901) 332). Compare zoochore n. and the German adjective cited at that entry. Compare anemochorous adj.
A plant whose seeds or other propagules are dispersed by wind. Also more generally: any organism whose propagules or offspring are dispersed by wind.
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1904 F. E. Clements in Bot. Surv. Nebraska No. 7. 48 Species which grow in exposed grassy or barren habitats are for the most part anemochores.
1992 Ecography 15 90/2 Only between 8.7 and 28.6% of species in the ground cover are anemochores.
2004 R. J. Huggett Fundamentals Biogeogr. (ed. 2) iii. 38/1 Some animals are anemochores: young black widow spiders..spin long strands of web that catch the wind and carry the small spiders many kilometres.

Derivatives

ˈanemochory n. dispersal of seeds, other propagules, or offspring by wind.
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1908 New Phytologist 7 25 In the case of plants which combine anemochory with myrmecochory the fruiting axis always remains erect.
1933 Ecology 14 226 Methods of ecological distribution include several types,..subdivided into anemochory, distribution by wind; hydrochory, distribution by water;..and anthropochory.
2007 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 94 307/1 Our results support the hypothesis that anemochory is the ancestral mechanism of dispersion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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