Pheromone

Definition: Pheromone

Pheromone

Noun

1. A chemical substance secreted externally by some animals (especially insects) that influences the physiology or behavior of other animals of the same species.

Date "pheromone" was first used: 1959. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Pheromone

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A substance secreted externally by certain animal species, especially insects, to affect the behavior or development of other members of the species (the queen substance of honeybees. . . is a --). Source: European Union. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pheromone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Fanning honeybee exposes
Nasinov gland (white-at tip of abdomen)
releasing pheromone to entice
swarm into an empty hive

A pheromone is any chemical produced by a living organism that transmits a message to other members of the same species. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others.

Insect pheromones of pest species, such as the Japanese beetle and the gypsy moth, are used to trap them.

In most mammals, pheromones are detected by the vomeronasal organ, or Jacobson's organ, which lies between the nose and mouth, rather than by the nose. Mammals therefore make a face called flehmen when they smell pheromones, in order to direct the pheromone to the VNO.

See also : Quorum sensing

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Pheromone."

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Commercial Usage: Pheromone

Domain	Title
References	Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	HUMAN PHEROMONE SCIENCES, INC.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series) (reference) Pheromone 2100 (reference) Pheromone Biochemistry (reference) Pheromone Communication in Social Insects: Ants, Wasps, Bees, and Termites (Westview Studies in Insect Biology) (reference) Pheromone on the Street Corner (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Pheromone (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Photo Album: Pheromone

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	ARS' Program manager for the areawide pest management effort, entomologist Carrol Calkins, discusses the placement of codling moth pheromone dispensers in a pear orchard with technician Brad Higbee (left) and grower Dale Olsen (right).Credit: USDA ARS News.		About one-eighth-inch long, the female Hessian fly emits a sex pheromone from her ovipositor to attract males. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
	Entomologist Suzanne Batra collects polyester bees, which release a lemony odor (pheromone) from their mouths that attracts more bees to the net. P.Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..
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Usage Frequency: Pheromone

"Pheromone" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pheromone" is used about 49 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%	49	48,677

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Usage in Company Names: Pheromone

Country	Name
USA	Human Pheromone Sciences, Inc.
	(more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expression: Pheromone

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "pheromone": pheromone-based, pheromone-fizzing, pheromone-releasing.
	Ending with "pheromone": soldier-pheromone.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pheromone

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	Expression	Frequency per Day
pheromone	1,395	pheromone trap	9
human pheromone	105	pheromone and woman	9
pheromone perfume	74	wholesale pheromone	9
pheromone cologne	53	primal instinct pheromone	9
androsterone pheromone concentrate	46	pheromone product	8
androsterone pheromone	26	pheromone store	8
pheromone oil	18	pheromone to attract man	8
pheromone tottemo	17	pheromone research	7
dog appeasing pheromone	14	pheromone concentrate	7
gay pheromone	14	dog pheromone	7
do pheromone work	13	pheromone attractant	6
athena pheromone	13	10x pheromone	6
sell pheromone	13	pheromone review	6
alter ego pheromone	12	pheromone study	6
male pheromone	11	pheromone to attract woman	6
pheromone for man	11	androstenedione concentrate pheromone	6
free pheromone	11	realm pheromone	6
female pheromone	10	absolute pheromone	5
buy pheromone	10	pheromone forum	5
insect pheromone	9	natural pheromone	5
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Modern Translations: Pheromone

Language		Translations for "pheromone"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Japanese Kanji		フェルミ粒子 (a walk, fall, fault, fault-tolerance, fauvisme, fellowship, fence, fencing, fender, Fermi particle, ferret, ferro-alloy, foam, foam rubber, focus, Fodor, fog, fog lamp, fog light, foie gras, folder, folk, folk art, folk dance, folk song, folklore, follow, follow wind, follow-through, followup, follow-up, fondue, font, force, force-out, ford, fore, forecast, foreground, forehand, foreman, forge, fork, fork ball, forklift, forklore, form, formal, formal dress, formal wear, formalism, format, formation, formatter, formatting, form-feed, formula car, formula plan, formula translation, forte, FORTRAN, fortune, forum, forward, forward pass, forwarding, fossa magna, foster child, foster parent, four nines, fox-trot, Fuji, Fuji-TV, phone, phonograph, photo, photo library, photo realism, photo story, photo studio, photochromic glass, photocoupler, photodiode, photogenic, photogenie, photograph, photographer, photography, photogravure, photoresist, phototransistor, Volkswagen, VW). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		フェロモン . (various references)

Pig Latin		eromonephay

Russian		феромон. (various references)

Swedish		feromon. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pheromone

Language	Period	Translations
Greek	700 BCE-300 CE	pherein. (various references)
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Derivations & Misspellings: Pheromone

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pheromone": pheromones. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pheromone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feromone, Ferrarone, Perammuna, pheomone, pheramone, pheremone, pherimone, phermone, pheromene, pheromine, pheromons, pheronome, Philomene. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pheromone"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "pheromone" (pronounced fe"rumō'n)
4	-u m ō' n	anemone.
3	-m ō' n	hormone.
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Anagrams: Pheromone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-o-p-r"
	-1 letter: neomorph.
	-2 letters: honoree, hormone, moorhen, phoneme.
	-3 letters: hempen, hereon, hooper, moreen, morpho, opener, operon, pereon, phenom, premen, reopen.
	-4 letters: enorm, ephor, heron, homer, honer, honor, hoper, moper, moron, morph, oomph, phone, phono, porno, preen, proem, promo, prone, rehem, romeo.
	-5 letters: erne, heme, hemp, here, herm, hern, hero, hoer, home, homo, hone, hoop, hope, horn, meno.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-h-m-n-o-o-p-r"
	+1 letter: pheromones.
	+2 letters: hemoprotein, melanophore, mesonephroi, mesonephros, nephrostome.
	+3 letters: endomorphies, hemoproteins, hymenopteron, melanophores, nephrostomes.
	+4 letters: comprehension, hymenopterons, hymenopterous, morphogeneses, morphogenesis, morphogenetic, pneumatophore.
	+5 letters: chemoreception, comprehensions, hyperemotional, pneumatophores, pneumothoraces, pneumothoraxes.
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