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myrmecophytism

myrmecophytism noun: the situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.

Noun

myrmecophytism (uncountable)

  1. The situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.
    • In many cases myrmecophytism has evolved multiple times in a single genus (e.g., Macaranga) and in other cases it has evolved in just one clade (i.e., Vachellia).2015 December 3, “Fidelity and Promiscuity in an Ant-Plant Mutualism: A Case Study of Triplaris and Pseudomyrmex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of myrmecophytism

From myrmecophyte + -ism.

Questions about myrmecophytism

What does myrmecophytism mean?
Myrmecophytism means the situation where a plant lives in association with a colony of ants.
What part of speech is myrmecophytism?
Myrmecophytism is a noun.

Words near myrmecophytism in the dictionary

  1. myrmecophobia
  2. myrmecophobic
  3. myrmecophyte
  4. myrmecophytes
  5. myrmecophytic
  6. myrmecophytism
  7. myrmecosphere
  8. myrmecospheres
  9. myrmecosymbiosis
  10. myrmecotrophic
  11. myrmecotrophy

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