How do you use Pheromone in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like secretion, plus the exact meaning.
Pheromone meaning
A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
Synonyms of Pheromone
Using Pheromone
- The main meaning on this page is: A chemical secreted by an animal, especially an insect, that affects the development or behavior of other members of the same species, functioning often as a means of attracting a member of the opposite sex.
- Useful related words include: secretion.
- In the example corpus, pheromone often appears in combinations such as: alarm pheromone, pheromone and, the pheromone.
Context around Pheromone
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pheromone
- In this selection, "pheromone" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, alarm, aggregative, virtual, traps, meant and products stand out and add context to how "pheromone" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1 200 pheromone traps will and an aggregative pheromone and an. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pheromone" sits close to words such as abdulkadir, abed and abhay, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pheromone
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Use pheromone products next to the den and around the home. (11 words)
Up to 1,200 pheromone traps will be provided to farmers. (11 words)
They can emit both an aggregative pheromone and an anti-aggregative pheromone. (12 words)
If recognized as a mate, it will be carried to the queen to mate. citation Males may also patrol the nest and fight others by grabbing them with their mandibles, piercing their exoskeleton and then marking them with a pheromone. (40 words)
The mating disruption treatment, which consists of a pheromone meant to confuse and overwhelm male spongy moths, will be sprayed by the yellow "air tractor" planes later this month in 12 different areas, including St. Charles, Geneva and Naperville. (39 words)
Males of such species as Euglossa imperialis or Eulaema meriana have been observed to leave their territories periodically to forage for aromatic compounds, such as cineole, to synthesize pheromone for attracting and mating with females. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
The sting of an Asian hornet contains an alarm pheromone, and other hornets from the nest may follow the pheromone and also try to sting the victim.
They can emit both an aggregative pheromone and an anti-aggregative pheromone.
Combine this with the lust pheromone from Ivy's climax and a billboard advertising star Brett Goldstein, and you get a building-humping Bane with destructive results.
The mating disruption treatment, which consists of a pheromone meant to confuse and overwhelm male spongy moths, will be sprayed by the yellow "air tractor" planes later this month in 12 different areas, including St. Charles, Geneva and Naperville.
Use pheromone products next to the den and around the home.
Every time a bee stings, it releases an alarm pheromone, calling its fellow defenders to pile on the pain en masse.
Popular treatments on the market include pheromone sprays, natural calming drops, tablets and herbs, thundershirts, remote treat dispensing cameras, long lasting chews, interactive toys and calming music.
Pheromone traps were put in place and adult specimens were collected within a week.
This level varies pest to pest, and for cotton, preventive measures are to be initiated if more than 10 moths are caught in the pheromone for three consecutive nights.
The team discovered that the activation of these CRH (Corticotropin-releasing hormone) neurons cause the release of a chemical signal, an ‘alarm pheromone’, from the mouse that alerts the partner.
Up to 1,200 pheromone traps will be provided to farmers.
Additionally, an alarmed termite will bump into other termites which causes them to be alarmed and to leave pheromone trails to the disturbed area, which is also a way to recruit extra workers.
At this point the ant which completed the shortest tour deposits virtual pheromone along its complete tour route (global trail updating).
Each ant probabilistically chooses the next city to visit based on a heuristic combining the distance to the city and the amount of virtual pheromone deposited on the edge to the city.
For this the change in the acoustic startle reflex of rats with alarm pheromone-induced anxiety (i.e. reduction of defensiveness) has been measured.
If recognized as a mate, it will be carried to the queen to mate. citation Males may also patrol the nest and fight others by grabbing them with their mandibles, piercing their exoskeleton and then marking them with a pheromone.
In 2010, scientists named a pheromone identified in male mouse urine darcin, citation after Mr Darcy, because it strongly attracted females.
Kirk and Kirk citation showed that sex-inducing pheromone production can be triggered in somatic cells by a short heat shock given to asexually growing organisms.
Males of such species as Euglossa imperialis or Eulaema meriana have been observed to leave their territories periodically to forage for aromatic compounds, such as cineole, to synthesize pheromone for attracting and mating with females.
Many arthropods have well-developed sensory organs, including compound eyes for vision and antennae for olfaction and pheromone sensation.
Common combinations with pheromone
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: