entomophilous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of entomophilous
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
All the species hitherto mentioned which produce cleistogamic flowers are entomophilous; but four genera, Juncus, Hordeum, Cryptostachys, and Leersia are anemophilous.
From The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Darwin, Charles
There is no great difficulty in understanding how an anemophilous plant might have been rendered entomophilous.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
The entomophilous ancestry of Pringlea is clearly shown by the occasional remnants of coloured markings in the petals, like those which in other flowers serve as finger-posts to visiting-insects, and are called nectar-guides.
From Springtime and Other Essays by Darwin, Francis, Sir
If this view is correct, plants must have been rendered hermaphrodites at a later though still very early period, and entomophilous at a yet later period, namely, after the development of winged insects.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Darwin, Charles
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 Darwin, Charles
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
