anemochoria

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See also: anemochorią

English

Noun

anemochoria (uncountable)

  1. (botany, zoology) Alternative form of anemochory
    • 1988, M. A. Gandolfo et al., “Akania patagonica n. sp. and additional material on Akania americana Romero & Hickey (Akaniaceae), from Paleocene sediments of Patagonia”, in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 115, number 2, page 87:
      Anemochoria may be important among seed plants for the distance reached by the diaspores.
    • 1994, Henri J. Dumont, “The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world”, in Hydrobiologia, volume 212, page 7:
      Downstream transportation […] is common to all aquatic animals which cannot maintain their position by swimming alone. The solution to this problem in freshwater is to produce a drought resistant life-stage adapted to passive (upstream) dispersal by anemochoria or zoochoria.
    • 2019, Maureen de Moraes Stefanello et al., “How Bovine Livestock Affects Seed Rain in Subtropical Climate Forest”, in Journal of Agricultural Science, volume 11, number 10, page 246:
      The presence of anemochoria can be considered as an indication of environmental disturbance in already established forest formations, since wind dispersion benefits these conditions.

Polish

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Etymology

From anemo- +‎ Ancient Greek χωρέω (khōréō). First attested in 1948.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.nɛ.mɔˈxɔ.rja/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrja
  • Syllabification: a‧ne‧mo‧cho‧ria

Noun

anemochoria f

  1. (botany, zoology) anemochory
    Synonym: wiatrosiewność

Declension

Declension of anemochoria
singular
nominative anemochoria
genitive anemochorii
dative anemochorii
accusative anemochorię
instrumental anemochorią
locative anemochorii
vocative anemochorio

Derived terms

adjective
noun

References

  1. ^ Rozprawy Wydziału Matematyczno-Przyrodniczego Polskiej Akademji Umiejętności: Nauki biologiczne. Dział B‎ (in Polish), 1948, page 9

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