Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, the fact or character of being anemophilous.

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  • noun A form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • - Botany, pollinated by wind. anemophile, n. such plant. anemophily, n. such pollination.

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

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  • Pollination by wind.

    November 14, 2007

  • "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