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| Domain | Definition |
Environment | A chemical or agent that lures insects or other pests by stimulating their sense of smell. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Entomologist Donald Barnard demonstrates the attraction of female yellowfever mosquitoes to his hand in an olfactometer. The olfactometer contains a screen separating the attractant (in this case, his hand) from the mosquitoes. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Peggy Greb.. |
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| "ATTRACTANT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ATTRACTANT" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "ATTRACTANT": sex attractant. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ATTRACTANT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | attractif (attracting, attractive). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | attractantay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ATTRACTANT": attractants. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-n-r-t-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: attract, cantata, ratatat, tantara, tartana. | |
-4 letters: arcana, rattan, tantra, tartan. | |
-5 letters: antra, attar, carat, ratan, tatar, tract. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-n-r-t-t-t-t" | |
+1 letter: attractants. | |
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