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Definition of Entomophily
1. [n -LIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Entomophily
Literary usage of Entomophily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The two perianth sets may be variously modified, but there runs through the series
an increasing specialization of the perianth for entomophily, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"By resorting to entomophily, the trees would only come in competition with the
terrestrial flora, which is more favorably situated for insect visits and is ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"By resorting to entomophily, the trees would only come in competition with the
terrestrial flora, which is more favorably situated for insect visits and is ..."
4. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"The significance of entomophily—Wanderings of small insects— Flowers with no ...
IN the consideration of insect-pollination (entomophily) we must never lose ..."
5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"... is evidence that strobili are produced much more freely in exposed than in
shaded situations; it is probable that entomophily occurs in E. villosus. ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1914)
"Apocynaceae in the development of a latex-system and in other specializations,
and the elaborate contrivances for entomophily in the former family reach a ..."
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