pheromone
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- noun
- /ˈfɛrəˌmoʊn/
- Specialized
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feromona
- Well, maybe it's because of the pheromones that you're giving off.
- sex pheromone
- release pheromones
- attract with pheromones
How vital are pheromones to Ant behavior?
- How vital are pheromones to Ant behavior?
- It might be tiny body language cues, It might be pheromones, it might be intuition.
- So they still don't know if we have pheromones.
- He's already, he's already doing this thing where I've realized that he's checking for female pheromones to see if they're around.
- There is a specific breath pheromone that some people have, and you know it like you guys know it.
- There was enough of that pheromone on me that the next morning they were still yellow jackets looking for me, waiting for me, wanting to give me, you know, their own sting.
- Get that natural pheromone, that minty pheromone, that faramint.
- Christ, come tell you looking like pheromone over here.
- Do you know the phenomenon of the pheromone?
- MANDRILS, mandrels, there are strong pheromone effects.
Examples
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Elephant pheromones detected.
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How vital are pheromones to Ant behavior?
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How much of that pheromone can you get your hands on?
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There is a specific breath pheromone that some people have, and you know it like you guys know it.
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Maybe it's some kind of pheromone.
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I asked him what pheromones had to do with his present condition.
Fiction book (2001) -
Wake up and smell the pheromones.
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In other words, the shorter the path, the thicker the pheromone trail is going to be.
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We're detecting the pheromones possibly, but certainly the odors in their breath.
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Ants communicate with each other by releasing a pheromone that signals danger.
Surface Forms
Morphology
pheromone = hormone (semi-transparent) = phero + mone
Related to 'hormone' so learners may infer it is a chemical messenger, but the specific sense (an external chemical signal between animals) is not fully predictable from the base.
Etymology
Pheromone comes from Greek parts phero- ('to carry') and hormone ('to excite'). So, a pheromone is a chemical that 'carries' a message to 'excite' or change the behavior of other animals.