anthropochore
anthropochore noun: a species that depends on anthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal.
Noun
anthropochore (plural anthropochores)
- A species that depends on anthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal.
- A population of a species in a region where it does not natively occur, established by anthropochorous events in the past.
- Although most anthropochores undoubtedly have been transported by man from the Old World to the New, there is evidence that at least some now known from Europe first became known from the United States and were carried east.G. W. Frankie
Forms of anthropochore
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Origin of anthropochore
From anthropo- + -chore.
Words formed from anthropochore
Questions about anthropochore
- What does anthropochore mean?
- Anthropochore means a species that depends on anthropochory as a routine means of reproductive dispersal.
- What part of speech is anthropochore?
- Anthropochore is a noun.
- What is the plural of anthropochore?
- The plural of anthropochore is anthropochores.
Words near anthropochore in the dictionary
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