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kairomones

kairomones is the plural of kairomone.

Meaning of kairomone

Noun

kairomone (plural kairomones)

  1. Any substance produced by an individual of one species (often an insect) that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer.
    • Among these substances, we propose to designate two major functional groupings by the terms allomone and kairomone, chosen as intentional parallels to the term pheromone.[1970 January, William L[acy] Brown, Jr.; Thomas Eisner; Robert H[arding] Whittaker, “Allomones and Kairomones: Transspecific Chemical Messengers”, in BioScience, volume 20, number 1, Washington...

Questions about kairomones

What is kairomones the plural of?
Kairomones is the plural of kairomone.

Words near kairomones in the dictionary

  1. kairo cancer
  2. kairoi
  3. kairoline
  4. kairomonal
  5. kairomone
  6. kairomones
  7. kairos
  8. kairotic
  9. Kairouan
  10. Kairouani
  11. kaisa

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