anemophilous

American  

[an-uh-mof-uh-luhs] / ˌæn əˈmɒf ə ləs /

adjective

Botany, Mycology.

1. fertilized by wind-borne pollen or spores.

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anemophilous British  

/ ˌænɪˈmɒfɪləs /

adjective

1. (of flowering plants such as grasses) pollinated by the wind Compare entomophilous

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anemophilous Scientific  

/ ăn′ə-mŏf′ə-ləs /

1. Pollinated by the wind.

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Other Word Forms

• anemophily
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of anemophilous

First recorded in 1870–75; anemo- + -philous

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

anemophilous

In the class Monoecia of Linnaeus, Delpino shows that the species of twenty-eight genera are anemophilous, and of seventeen genera entomophilous.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

Both these authors remark that plants must have been anemophilous before they were entomophilous.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

We have also seen that as plants became more highly developed and affixed to the ground, they would be compelled to be anemophilous in order to intercross.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

Poterium sanguisorba is anemophilous; and Sanguisorba officinalis presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae.

From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace

Therefore the earliest terrestrial plants known to us, namely, the Coniferae and Cycadiae, no doubt were anemophilous, like the existing species of these same groups.

From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

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