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tremology

tremology noun: synonym of biotremology.

Noun

tremology (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of biotremology.
    • In spite of vibrational communication being so widespread (more than 230,000 arthropods species and many vertebrates too), it is probably the least commonly known and least well known of all the sensory modes. […] Perhaps one reason is that there is not a word describing what we do; I suggest the...[2014, John A. Endler, “Foreword: The Emerging Field of Tremology”, in Reginald B. Cocroft, Matija Gogala, Peggy S. M. Hill, Andreas Wessel, editors, Studying Vibrational Communication (Animal...
    Synonyms:
    biotremology

Synonyms of tremology

Origin of tremology

From tremo(r) + -logy. Coined by Canadian biologist John Endler in Studying Vibrational Communication (2014).

Words formed from tremology

Questions about tremology

What does tremology mean?
Tremology means synonym of biotremology.
What part of speech is tremology?
Tremology is a noun.

Words near tremology in the dictionary

  1. tremolists
  2. tremolite
  3. tremolites
  4. tremolitic
  5. tremolo
  6. tremology
  7. tremolos
  8. Tremont
  9. tremor
  10. tremordominant
  11. tremored

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