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myrmeco-|ˈmɜːmɪkəʊ, -ˈkɒ, mɜːˈmiːkəʊ|
combining form of Gr. µυρµηκ-, µύρµηξ, ant, used in a few scientific terms. myrmecoˈlogical a., pertaining to myrmecology. myrmeˈcologist, a student or professor of myrmecology. myrmeˈcology, the department of study concerned with ants. myrmeˈcophagid, myrmeˈcophagine, a member of the genus Myrmecophaga [Gr. -ϕάγος eating], family Myrmecophagidæ, or sub-family Myrmecophaginæ of ant-eaters. myrmeˈcophagous a., ant-eating, belonging to the genus Myrmecophaga. myrˈmecophile, a myrmecophilous insect. myrmeˈcophilous a., applied (a) to insects that live in ant-hills, (b) to plants living symbiotically with ants or fertilized by them. myrmeˈcophilism, -phily, the condition of being myrmecophilous. myrmecoˈphobic a., refusing the society of ants. myrˈmecophyte, a myrmecophilous plant.
1886Nature 7 Jan. 240 *Myrmecological studies, by Herr G. Adlerz.
1901W. M. Wheeler in Amer. Naturalist XXXV. 432 It thus becomes necessary to review much that is well known to the *myrmecologist. 1972Sci. Amer. Sept. 193/1 Forty-five years ago the American myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler wrote a volume with a very similar title, the fruit of his lifetime study of ants.
1885Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) V. 66 These accessory articulations are well exemplified in the Dasypodids and *Myrmecophagids.
Ibid. 59 The palatines and pterygoids of the two sides not meeting as they do in the *Myrmecophagines.
1840Owen in Zool. Voy. Beagle I. 87 The cervical vertebræ do actually differ in two *myrmecophagous species. 1898Nat. Sci. May 326 The larvae at the same time both myrmecoid and myrmecophagous.
1898Nat. Sci. May 324 The progeny (eggs, larvae and nymphs)..can also be utilised by the *myrmecophiles. 1927H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe Guests of British Ants p. xv, A large number of creatures do manage to live in or near ants' nests. Such creatures when associated with, and not merely present with ants, are known as *myrmecophiles.
1959E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Is. I. 47 Certain beetles are known as myrmecophiles (ant-lovers) from their association with ants. The name *myrmecophilism has been given to this curious habit.
1866Intell. Observ. No. 56. 128 Other *myrmecophilous coleoptera. 1888Nature 20 Dec. 172 Myrmecophilous plants.
1898Nat. Sci. May 325 The search for the liquids secreted by Aphides does not usually constitute a true case of *myrmecophily.
1897Pop. Sci. Monthly L. 829 The plant, becoming *myrmecophobic..achieves an economy of nutritive forces.
1902J. M. Coulter Plant Studies 162 Very definite arrangements are made by certain plants for harboring ants, which in turn guard them against the attack of leaf-cutting insects and other foes. These plants are called *Myrmecophytes. |