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Meaning of trophophoretic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Exhibiting trophophoresy.

not-comparable

Examples

“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 [...]”

“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).”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

trophophoric trophophyllous trophoplasmic trophosomal trophotropic trophyless