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trophophoretic en · ADJ

Etymology

From trophophoresy + -etic or tropho- + phoretic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Exhibiting trophophoresy.
    • This latter form of trophobiosis has been termed trophophoresy (LaPolla et al. 2002). Only two ant genera are known to contain trophophoretic species: Acropyga (Formicinae), in which all 37 species are thought to be trophophoretic, and [...] 2006, Insect Systematics & Evolution, page 198:
    • In the Solomons, A. lauta is reported as being trophophoretic (Johnson et al., 2001), and has been associated with the mealybugs Eumyrmoccus kolobangarae and E. kusiacus (LaPolla, 2004). 2012, Eli M. Sarnat, Evan P. Economo, The Ants of Fiji, →ISBN, page 43: