anthropochory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
Uncountable
noun
The (typically inadvertent and sporadic) dispersal by humans, of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, into a region where they do not natively occur, resulting in adventitious anthropochorous establishment of an alien population if successful.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Stephenson stressed the importance of anthropochory in earthworm dispersal. Human introductions, either intentional or unconscious, play a key role in earthworm invasions, as is well demonstrated by the presence of European Lumbricidae in North America, Asia, New Zealand"
Etymology
From anthropo- + -chory.