Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the fact or character of being anemophilous.
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- noun A form of
pollination wherebypollen isdistributed bywind .
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Examples
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The flowers of most aquatic angiosperms must be elevated above the water in order for pollination to occur; entomophily is pollination by insects and anemophily is by wind; very rarely does pollen transfer occur underwater (hydrophily).
Macrophytes 2007
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On the other hand, the slender filaments, versatile anthers, powdery pollen, and elongated protogynous style are features of other species indicating anemophily; while the presence of a degraded corolla shows its ancestors to have been entomophilous.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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- Botany, pollinated by wind. anemophile, n. such plant. anemophily, n. such pollination.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
reesetee commented on the word anemophily
Pollination by wind.
November 14, 2007
knitandpurl commented on the word anemophily
"Two bees report on traffic, warning listeners
to the anemophily channel
as the natural disaster
of humanity comes closer
every morning. Work while you can, they say."
- from "Flooded Meadow" by Stephen Burt, p 52 of the April 23, 2012 edition of the New Yorker
April 24, 2012