anemochoria

anemochoria (uncountable)

1. (botany, zoology) Alternative form of anemochory
   • 1988, M. A. Gandolfo et al., “Akania patagonica n. sp. and additional material on Akania americana Romero & Hickey (Akaniaceae), from Paleocene sediments of Patagonia”, in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 115, number 2, page 87:

     Anemochoria may be important among seed plants for the distance reached by the diaspores.

   • 1994, Henri J. Dumont, “The distribution and ecology of the fresh- and brackish-water medusae of the world”, in Hydrobiologia, volume 212, page 7:

     Downstream transportation […] is common to all aquatic animals which cannot maintain their position by swimming alone. The solution to this problem in freshwater is to produce a drought resistant life-stage adapted to passive (upstream) dispersal by anemochoria or zoochoria.

   • 2019, Maureen de Moraes Stefanello et al., “How Bovine Livestock Affects Seed Rain in Subtropical Climate Forest”, in Journal of Agricultural Science, volume 11, number 10, page 246:

     The presence of anemochoria can be considered as an indication of environmental disturbance in already established forest formations, since wind dispersion benefits these conditions.

From anemo- +‎ Ancient Greek χωρέω (khōréō). First attested in 1948.[1]

• IPA^(key): /a.nɛ.mɔˈxɔ.rja/
• Rhymes: -ɔrja
• Syllabification: a‧ne‧mo‧cho‧ria

anemochoria f

1. (botany, zoology) anemochory

   Synonym: wiatrosiewność

• anemochoria in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• anemochoria in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• anemochoria in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego