单词 | anthropochorous |
释义 | anthropochorousadj. Ecology. Esp. of a plant or animal species: spread (accidentally or deliberately) by human activity. Also: designating this mode of spread. ΚΠ 1913 Jrnl. Ecol. 1 64 Anthropochorous plants are divided into (a) those introduced unintentionally..and (b) those introduced intentionally. 1974 Nature 8 Feb. 407/1 Modes of dispersal, namely aerial (both active and passive), hydrochorous, zoochorous and anthropochorous, are discussed at some length. 1987 Curr. Anthropol. 28 232/1 As cereals cannot ripen during the short warm season, their pollen is considered anthropochorous, transmitted from the cultivated lowlands epi- and endozoically in sheep faecal pellets and wool and on human clothing. 2014 M. Masseti & C. Vernesi in K. Baker et al. Deer & People ii. 16 Other than the extant fallow deer of Rhodes, the population of the island of Sardinia, which was extirpated at the end of the 1960s.., represented the only other population with anthropochorous stock to have persisted on Mediterranean islands since antiquity. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1913 |
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