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Meaning of "zoophilous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ZOOPHILOUS

zoophilous  [zəʊˈɒfɪləs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ZOOPHILOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Zoophilous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ZOOPHILOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of zoophilous in the English dictionary

The definition of zoophilous in the dictionary is pollinated by animals. Other definition of zoophilous is of, characterized by, or relating to zoophilism.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ZOOPHILOUS


acidophilous
ˌæsɪˈdɒfɪləs
acidophilus
ˌæsɪˈdɒfɪləs
ammophilous
æˈmɒfɪləs
anemophilous
ˌænɪˈmɒfɪləs
endophyllous
ɛnˈdɒfɪləs
eosinophilous
ˌiːəʊsɪˈnɒfɪləs
geophilous
dʒiːˈɒfɪləs
heliophilous
ˌhiːlɪˈɒfɪləs
Herophilus
hɪəˈrɒfɪləs
lithophilous
lɪˈθɒfɪləs
myiophilous
maɪˈɒfɪləs
myophilous
maɪˈɒfɪləs
rhizophilous
raɪzˈɒfɪləs
sclerophyllous
sklɛˈrɒfɪləs
Theophilus
θɪˈɒfɪləs
thermophilous
θɜːˈmɒfɪləs
thermophyllous
θɜːmˈɒfɪləs
tropophilous
trəʊˈpɒfɪləs
xerophilous
zɪˈrɒfɪləs
xiphophyllous
zɪˈfɒfɪləs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ZOOPHILOUS

zoophagan
zoophagous
zoophagy
zoophile
zoophilia
zoophilic
zoophilism
zoophilist
zoophobe
zoophobia
zoophobous
zoophoric
zoophorus
zoophysiologist
zoophysiology
zoophyte
zoophytic
zoophytical
zoophytoid
zoophytological

WORDS THAT END LIKE ZOOPHILOUS

battailous
coprophilous
halophilous
hydrophilous
hygrophilous
limnophilous
malacophilous
myrmecophilous
nitrophilous
nubilous
ornithophilous
perilous
pilous
ridiculous
scurrilous
sibilous
Siege Perilous
symphilous
tendrilous
unperilous
verisimilous

Synonyms and antonyms of zoophilous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «zoophilous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ZOOPHILOUS

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

Translator English - Chinese

zoophilous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

zoófila
570 millions of speakers

English

zoophilous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

zoophilous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ولوع بالحيوان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

зоофильных
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

zoophilous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাণীপরাগিত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

zoophile
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Zoophilous
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zoophilous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

zoophilous
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

zoophilous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Zoophilous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

zoophilous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

zoophilous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

झूफीलस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

zoophilous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

zoophilous
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zoophilous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зоофільних
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zoophilous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

zoophilous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zoophilous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

zoophilous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

zoophilous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of zoophilous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHILOUS»

The term «zoophilous» is barely ever used and occupies the 198.780 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ZOOPHILOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «zoophilous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «zoophilous» 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 zoophilous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ZOOPHILOUS»

Discover the use of zoophilous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to zoophilous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Plant Breeding Systems
Where trees are zoophilous, they are usually small (Sorbus, Crataegus, Malns) and without vegetative reproduction, or they are habitually solitary, or non- dominant, as in the very diverse trees of tropical forest. Zoophilous trees are also usually ...
A. J. Richards, 1997
2
Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the ...
Here, I concentrate on pollination vectors because an important taphonomic problem arises from zoophily (animal-dispersed pollen). Zoophilous plants usually produce less pollen than anemophilous plants (wind-dispersed pollen) and pollen ...
Scott L. Wing, 2003
3
Encyclopedia of Paleoclimatology and Ancient Environments
In zoophilous plants, the pollen is carried from the anther of one flower to the stigma of another by an animal vector such as insects, birds or bats; these plants produce relatively less pollen. Hyp-hydroga- mous (pollination under water) and  ...
Vivien Gornitz, 2009
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Gobbledygook: A Dictionary That's 2/3 Accurate, 1/3 Nonsense ...
colph,. zoophilous,. interdigitate. colph. (KAHLFF) (noun): An indeterminate pause in music. Although not a colph as such, “4'33”,” by experimental composer John Cage, may be the most famous example of this term. For the piece, Cage would ...
William Wilson, 2011
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Pollen and Pollination
Hesse (1979a, b, c) observed that anemophilous pollens tend to have less pollenkitt and less sticky surfaces than closely-related zoophilous species. Thus, it might be expected that zoophilous pollens in general would have more pollenkitt ...
Amots Dafni, Michael Hesse, Ettore Pacini, 2000
6
Sedimentation of Organic Particles
include Kurtzipites trispissatus and S yncolporites minimus, which occur in peak abundances immediately above the K/T boundary. The presence of both zoophilous and anemophilous plants in the floras contiguous to the boundary affects the ...
Alfred Traverse, 2005
7
Pollinosis
Pollen transported actively and/or passively by animals leads to zoophilous pollination. Gymno- sperms are anemophilous, and angiosperms can be anemophilous or zoophilous (Table 2). The animals more commonly involved and adapted ...
Paolo Falagiani, 1989
8
The Evolution of Plants
Table 6.4 Criteria for anemophilous (wind) and animal (zoophilous) pollination modes based on observations in extant plants from Hu et al. (2008). Wind- pollinated Animal-pollinated Zoophilous general Ornamental, may be sticky and oily ...
Kathy Willis, Jennifer McElwain, 2013
9
An Evolutionary Basis for Pollination Ecology
Macrofossils more often represent zoophilous, mainly entomophilous, flowers than does fossil pollen (as expected at the beginning of this section). Comparison of the distribution of anemogamy and entomogamy among the species of the ...
S. C. Willemstein, 1987
10
Flowering Plants. Monocotyledons: Lilianae (except Orchidaceae)
Within the monocots, almost all kinds of reproductive strategies and floral contrivances found in the dicots reappear: the trend toward wind pollination, the adaptive radiation into an array of corolla shapes and zoophilous floral styles, types of ...
Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber, 1998

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ZOOPHILOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term zoophilous is used in the context of the following news items.
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Elements of land, sea in new Muskegon Museum of Art exhibit
"Zoophilious" is a play on the word "zoophilous," or pollinated by animals. We usually think of pollination occurring among plants and insects, or perhaps birds, ... «Muskegon Chronicle - MLive.com, May 09»

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