pheromone
noun
any chemical substance released by an animal that serves to influence the physiology or behavior of other members of the same species.
pheromonal
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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
Once, in Costa Rica, I was attacked by ants that crawled surreptitiously up my leg until, at a pheromonal signal, they bit at three different places at the exact same moment.
From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020
Other work suggests that less familiar inputs might exist for a human pheromonal network.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 13, 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
