kairomone
noun
kai·ro·mone ˈkī-rə-ˌmōn 
-rō-
: a chemical substance emitted by one species and especially an insect or plant that has an adaptive benefit (such as a stimulus for oviposition) to another species
Word History
Etymology
Greek kairos critical time, opportunity + English -mone (as in pheromone)
First Known Use
1970, in the meaning defined above
- quadrater
- quadrates
- quadratest
- quadratic
- quadratic equation
- quadratic form
- quadratic formula
- quadratic mean
- quadratical
- quadratically
- quadratics
- quadrating
- quadratojugal
- quadratomandibular
- quadratrixes
- quadrats
- quadratted
- quadratting
- quadrature
- quadrature of the circle
- quadratures
- quadratuses
- quadrel
- quadrellas
- quadrennia