- a word derived from pheromone.
Example Sentences
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The pheromonal signal then continues to areas of the hypothalamus that are key to reproductive physiology and behavior.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
“You were a pheromonal ideal for us because we did not yet know how to smell like ourselves.”
From New York Times • May 2, 2022
They live in a world dictated by odours, pheromonal signals and trails that’s foreign to our visually-biased view of life.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012
The colony was doomed by a hereditary trait even more basic than the altruism of the workers and the pheromonal ties that bound them together.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 18, 2010
It is in mammals that the pheromonal chatter climaxes.
From Time Magazine Archive
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