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Meaning of "myophily" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MYOPHILY

From Greek muia fly + philos loving.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MYOPHILY

myophily  [maɪˈɒfɪlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MYOPHILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Myophily is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MYOPHILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of myophily in the English dictionary

The definition of myophily in the dictionary is pollination of plants by flies.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MYOPHILY


acarophily
ˌækəˈrɒfɪlɪ
anemophily
ˌænɪˈmɒfɪlɪ
anisophylly
ˌænaɪˈsɒfɪlɪ
arctophily
ɑːkˈtɒfɪlɪ
bibliophily
ˌbɪblɪˈɒfɪlɪ
cartophily
kɑːˈtɒfɪlɪ
entomophily
ˌɛntəˈmɒfɪlɪ
hydrophily
haɪˈdrɒfɪlɪ
malacophily
ˌmæləˈkɒfɪlɪ
monophyly
məˈnɒfɪlɪ
myiophily
maɪˈɒfɪlɪ
myrmecophily
ˌmɜːmɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
ornithophily
ˌɔːnɪˈθɒfɪlɪ
photophily
fəʊˈtɒfɪlɪ
psychophily
saɪˈkɒfɪlɪ
sclerophylly
sklɪərˈɒfɪlɪ
scripophily
skrɪˈpɒfɪlɪ
timbrophily
tɪmˈbrɒfɪlɪ
toxophily
tɒkˈsɒfɪlɪ
xerophily
zɪəˈrɒfɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MYOPHILY

myomata
myomatous
myomectomies
myomectomy
myoneural
myopathic
myopathies
myopathy
myope
myophilous
myopia
myopic
myopically
myoscope
myoses
myosin
myosis
myositis
myosote
myosotis

WORDS THAT END LIKE MYOPHILY

gushily
healthily
lengthily
maximaphily
notaphily
oenophily
patchily
pithily
praiseworthily
raunchily
sketchily
stealthily
symphily
techily
toothily
touchily
trashily
unhealthily
unworthily
worthily

Synonyms and antonyms of myophily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «myophily» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MYOPHILY

Find out the translation of myophily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of myophily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «myophily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

myophily
1,325 millions of speakers

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myophily
570 millions of speakers

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myophily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

myophily
380 millions of speakers
ar

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myophily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

myophily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

myophily
270 millions of speakers

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myophily
260 millions of speakers

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myophily
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Myophily
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

myophily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

myophily
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

myophily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Myophily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

myophily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

myophily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मायोफिली
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

myophily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

myophily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

myophily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

myophily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

myophily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

myophily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

myophily
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

myophily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

myophily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of myophily

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MYOPHILY»

The term «myophily» is barely ever used and occupies the 210.404 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MYOPHILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «myophily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «myophily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about myophily

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MYOPHILY»

Discover the use of myophily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to myophily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Biology of Floral Scent
... and eventually located the flowers.82 8.2.3.1 “Typical” Myophily Among the broad group of plant species visited by food-seeking flies, there appear to be ones that rely more heavily on flies as pollinators and form a syndrome of myophily.
Natalia Dudareva, Eran Pichersky, 2006
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The Flowering of Australia's Rainforests: A Plant and ...
But in escaping they inadvertently collect on their bodies pollen that has been shed from the male flowers, and so disperse it to other plants. Out-crossing is achieved. POLLINATION BY DIPTERA (MYOPHILY AND SAPROMYOPHILY) The ...
Geoff Williams, Paul Adam, 2010
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Pollination Biology: Biodiversity Conservation and ...
(Myophily. and. Cantharophily). Faegri and van der Pijl (1966) have suggested that a greater diversity of pollination methods is found among flies than among any other insect group and, since numerous dipteran taxa frequently visit flowers to ...
D. P. Abrol, 2011
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An Atlas of Orchid Pollination: European Orchids
Sapro- myophily should be divided in simple and complex sapromyophily (the first being open flowers, the latter being fly traps, Plate 7, p. 13) and myceto- myophily (mimetes of fungi). Some flowers attract relatively long-tongued syrphids, ...
Nelis A. Van Der Cingel, 2001
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A Pictorial and Ethnobotanical Guide to Plants of Eastern ...
Fly (Diptera) pollination (myophily and sapromyophily) is of two basic types and may in part be classified as being active or passive respectively. In myophily, the active form, flies are attracted by scent to white or darker colored (blue, maroon, ...
Jerry G. Chmielewski, 2011
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Pollination and Floral Ecology
These kinds of flowers are traditionally referred to as myophilous, and the generalist fly flower syndrome as myophily. The typical flowers have the following properties: 1. They are small and open, flat or shallow bowl shaped, radially ...
Pat Willmer, 2011
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Pakistan Journal of Botany
42. ANJUM PERVEEN ETAL,. Maerva arenana (DC.) IV Melittophily + + densely- spinulose Hook.f. & Thorns. Caryophyllaceae Myophily & Melittophily (Proctor, 1978) Potycarpaea spicata Wight & II Myophily ...
‎1994
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Pollination : from theory to practice: Lethbridge, Alberta, ...
Second, some pollination syndromes, e.g., myophily, may need revision and some minor syndromes may yet need description. For example, Manning and Goldblatt (1996) recently described a set of South African species, with purple to  ...
K. W. Richards, International Society for Horticultural Science, Canada. Agriculture and Agri-food Canada. Lethbridge Research Centre, 1997
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Telopea
The mutualistic interaction between pollinating insects and flowers is mediated by the scent and colour of the flower and the nutritional value of nectar and pollen grain (Harborne 1988). Pollination by flies or myophily has been reported in a ...
‎2003
10
Illustrated Dictionary of Entomology
Myogenic rhythms: Rhythms produced by spontaneously active muscles. Myophily: Plant containing by flies. Myriapoda: A class of arthropods which includes millipedes and centipedes. Myrmecochory: The collection and dispersal of seeds by ...
Paras Nath, 2007

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« EDUCALINGO. Myophily [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/myophily>. Apr 2024 ».
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