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单词 anthophilous
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Definition of anthophilous in English:

anthophilous

adjective anˈθɒfɪləsanˈTHäfələs
Zoology
  • (of insects or other animals) frequenting flowers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar.
    • This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered.
    • The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
    • However, anthophilous birds appeared to mostly forage higher in the trees and probably consumed more nectar from, and provided more pollination services to, flowers higher in the trees.
    • At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.
 
 

Definition of anthophilous in US English:

anthophilous

adjectiveanˈTHäfələs
Zoology
  • (of insects or other animals) frequenting flowers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • At least seventy-one families of Diptera contain anthophilous species, and flies are pollinators of more than eleven hundred species.
    • However, anthophilous birds appeared to mostly forage higher in the trees and probably consumed more nectar from, and provided more pollination services to, flowers higher in the trees.
    • Adults of some Dolichopodinae have elongate mouthparts and are known to be anthophilous and feed on nectar.
    • This foraging profile overlapped with those of all anthophilous insect families, all bee subgenera, and all species of nectarivorous birds that were encountered.
    • The elongate, loose inflorescence usually bears 4 10 brilliantly rose-coloured flowers which completely lack nectar or other food for anthophilous insects and thus act by deceit.
 
 
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