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"PHEROMONES" is a plural of: pheromone. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Chemical substances which, when secreted by an individual into the environment, cause specific reactions in other individuals, usually of the same species. The substances relate only to multicellular organisms. This includes kairomones. Allomones are repellent pheromones. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Pheromones are external secretion that convey a chemical signal among organisms of the same species. Compare to hormones which are internal only to the organism but conveying a chemical signal among organs.
They are a popular device in fiction, including the novel Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins and the film Love Potion Number Nine.
Some believe that certain commercially available pheromones can act as an aphrodisiac, but the beliefs often lack credence due to an excessive marketing of pheromones by unsolicited e-mail and their effectiveness is questionable.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pheromones."
Crosswords: PHEROMONES |
| Specialty definitions using "PHEROMONES": behaviour modifying chemical, Biopesticide ♦ semio-chemical, Sex Attractants ♦ Vomeronasal Organ. (references) |
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| "PHEROMONES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 98.63% of the time. "PHEROMONES" is used about 73 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 (plural) | 98.63% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 1.37% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 73 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beach inc palm perfumery pheromones.com | 2 |
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Misspellings | |
"PHEROMONES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feromone, pheomone, pheramone, pheramones, pheremone, pheremones, pherimone, phermone, phermones, pheromene, pheromine, pheromons, pheronome, pheronomes, pherromones. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PHEROMONES" (pronounced fe"rumō'nz) |
| 4 | -m ō' n z | daimones, hormones. |
| 3 | -ō' n z | allophones, cheekbones, cherrystones, cobblestones, cornerstones, crossbones, earphones, gallstones, gemstones, gladstones, gravestones, hailstones, headphones, headstones, limestones, megaphones, microphones, milestones, overtones, rhinestones, saxophones, silicones, telephones, tombstones, undertones. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: neomorphs, noosphere, pheromone. | |
-2 letters: honorees, hormones, horsemen, moorhens, neomorph, oosphere, phonemes. | |
-3 letters: honoree, hoopers, hormone, moorhen, moreens, morphos, onshore, oosperm, openers, operons, operose, phenoms, phoneme, reopens, reshone, shopmen, snooper, someone. | |
-4 letters: enmesh, ephors, hempen, hereon, heroes, herons, herpes, homers, honers, honors, hooper, hopers, mopers, moreen, morons, morose, morpho, morphs, mosher, nooser, nosher, oomphs, opener. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: mesonephroi, mesonephros, nephrostome. | |
+2 letters: endomorphies, hemoproteins, melanophores, nephrostomes. | |
+3 letters: comprehension, hymenopterons, hymenopterous, morphogeneses, morphogenesis. | |
+4 letters: comprehensions, pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes. | |
+5 letters: amorphousnesses, anthropometries, chemoreceptions, hypersomnolence, incomprehension, superphenomenon. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 48 45 52 4F 4D 4F 4E 45 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .... . .-. --- -- --- -. . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001000 01000101 01010010 01001111 01001101 01001111 01001110 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P H E R O M O N E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0048 0045 0052 004F 004D 004F 004E 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50423952494749483953 |
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