sign stimulus
Zoology
noun
The component or characteristic of an external stimulus which initiates a particular innate behavioural response in an animal perceiving it, regardless of the presence or absence of the remainder of the stimulus.
Origin
1930s.
- early (or earlier) on
- Early Pointed
- early purple orchid
- early purple orchis
- early retirement
- early retirer
- early riser
- early rising
- early Victorian
- early-warning
- early warning system
- early wood
- earmark
- ear-minded
- earmuffs
- earn
- earned income
- earned run
- earned run average
- earner
- earnest
- earnestly
- earnest money
- earnestness
- earnest penny