entomophilous

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Related to entomophily: Ornithophily, Anemophily

entomophilous

[‚ent·ə′mäf·ə·ləs]
(ecology)
Pollinated by insects.
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(1989) further noted that entomophily typically results in the deposition of clumps of pollen, whereas, among the 312 pollination droplets examined in their study, none was observed to contain clumped Ephedra pollen grains.
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