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pheromone
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Wikipedia
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A pheromone (from Ancient Greek "to bear" and hormone , from Ancient Greek "") is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species . Pheromones are chemicals capable of acting outside the body of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Do plants, then, also communicate by means of airborne pheromones or in some other, perhaps more subtle fashion, as well? ▪ Meanwhile, new subscribers began to flock, like moths scenting pheromones, to the Times. ▪ Pests are ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
Usage examples of pheromone.
But then, An-dorian women were known for the allure of their pheromones.
Shan bristled at the unconscious challenge, a matriarchal reaction to the pheromone.
A number of different antibiotics have been shown to promote plasmid transfer between different bacteria, and it might even be considered that some antibiotics are bacterial pheromones.
Pheromone lure traps - which use the sex attractant chemicals of the insects themselves - are now available for warehouses, stores and home use, both for detection and control of these pests.
She could smell Troy all around her, cologne and salt and his personal pheromones.
Why did masses of them crammed into convention hotel room parties exude such clouds of antisexual pheromones?
And the pheromones females released sent males into a breeding frenzy of their own.
Verity recognized the guard Bees, to the far right and far left, poised for killing, yet puzzled at the sisterly pheromones, which Verity knew were a part of her being, absorbed by her DNA during that green and luminous handpress that seemed so very long ago.
Some of the boxes contained the alarm pheromone - isopentyl acetate - in glass vials.
When a box struck, a vial containing isopentyl acetate was broken and the alarm pheromone released.
As the Center for Macromolecular Research, its mission was to investigate pheromonic phenomena among plants and insects, to isolate pheromones from the various species, to elaborate strategies for the use of pheromones in combating insect pests, and to synthesize these pheromones for use as pesticides in commercial quantities.
Its silence said that the pheromones were not those of preemption or command.
Heaven only knows what a psychochemical wilderness the world will be when all the tailored pheromones and augmentary psychotropics have run the gamut of mutational variation.
The air passed over their vomeronasal organs, glands for detecting pheromones far more sensitive than those found in their parents.
This pheromone is detected by the human male by means of the vomeronasal organ, a vestigial apparatus that runs from the nose to the brain.