Usually means: Chemical signals communicating within species.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. pheromone: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pheromone: Merriam-Webster
  3. pheromone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pheromone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pheromone: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pheromone: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pheromone, pheromone: Wordnik
  8. pheromone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pheromone: Wiktionary
  10. pheromone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pheromone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pheromone: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pheromone: Dictionary.com
  14. pheromone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Pheromone (album), Pheromone (disambiguation), Pheromone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. pheromone: Rhymezone
  17. pheromone: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pheromone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pheromone: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pheromone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. pheromone: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pheromone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. pheromone: Medical dictionary
  6. Pheromone: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pheromone: Biology dictionary
  2. Pheromone: HYPP Zoology
  3. Biological Control (No longer online)
  4. pheromone: Evolution Glossary
  5. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  6. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pheromone: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  (biology) 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.

Similar:
ectohormone, pheromonostasis, allomone, chemosignaling, synomone, morphogen, sex hormone, shmoo, chemosignalling, hormonomics, more...

Phrases:
Sex pheromone, trail pheromone, pheromone receptors, receptors, pheromone, receptors pheromone, more...

Adjectives:
female, synthetic, male, maternal, sexual, human, natural, more, volatile, produced, specific


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Similar:
ectohormone, pheromonostasis, allomone, chemosignaling, synomone, morphogen, sex hormone, shmoo, chemosignalling, hormonomics, more...

Phrases:
Sex pheromone, trail pheromone, pheromone receptors, receptors, pheromone, receptors pheromone, Nasonov pheromone, Cat pheromone, Pheromone trap, more...

Adjectives:
female, synthetic, male, maternal, sexual, human, natural, more, volatile, produced, specific



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