Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. biology seed dispersal via transportation on the outside of vertebrate animals (mostly mammals)
Etymologies
- From epi- +zoo- + -chory. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“First, seeds can be transported on the outside of animals, a process known as epizoochory.”
“Ducks – particularly herbivorous species such as pochards – have proven to be highly important transporters of aquatic plants, both as seeds stuck to their feathers or feet (a form of transport known as epizoochory), and as propagules carried in the bird’s gut (a form of transport known as endozoochory).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘epizoochory’.
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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originally started as an attempt to collect words I found visually and auditorially beautiful, as well as psychically evocative, this has become nothing more than a grab bag of word curiosities, a ...
bergamot, jambalaya, bee's knees, heliotrope, hosanna, gamboge, aureole, filial, madrigal, multilingual, sacrosanct, sojourn and 1072 more...
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A Serving of Random Palavery
This is an eclectic and somewhat random list of words that catch and hold my attention. They may be archaic or disused, dialectal, jargon words from my fields of academic speciality (linguistics, ...
scraffle, infelicitous, misprize, defrock, caitiff, gimcrack, innerve, abjure, cyberchondriac, indurate, hexagynous, pistils and 146 more...
Tweets
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hernesheir (n): dispersal of plant disseminules via adhesion to animals or their fur.
It is rumored that "velcro" was invented by one who investigated why cockleburs could stick so tight to one's clothing.
cf. sticktights Jan 1, 2009