pheromone
IPA: fˈɛrʌmoʊn
noun
- (biology) A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
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Examples of "pheromone" in Sentences
- Techniques in pheromone research.
- Evidence of sexual pheromone secretion.
- They release a pheromone that does this.
- Males are then attracted to this pheromone.
- The same happens to women for the pheromone AND.
- Ectocarpene was the first isolated algal pheromone.
- Actinidine is also a pheromone for a variety of insects.
- It was an early indicant that humans can respond to pheromones.
- Androstenone was the first mammalian pheromone to be identified.
- Pheromones from the brood prevent the developing of the workers' ovaries.
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