Definition of "anemophilous" []

• Pollinated by wind-dispersed pollen. (adjective)

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• "Dissemination is effected by the agency of water, of air, of animals -- and fruits and seeds are therefore grouped in respect of this as hydrophilous, anemophilous and zooidiophilous."
• "_Poterium sanguisorba_ is anemophilous; and _Sanguisorba officinalis_ presumably was so formerly, but has reacquired an entomophilous habit; the whole tribe Poterieae being, in fact, a degraded group which has descended from Potentilleae."
• "'Cyclospermeae' are related to Caryophylleae; and to my mind are degradations from it, of which Orache is anemophilous."