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Re: Earliest pollinating bird from Eocene found in Messel Pit
On Thu, May 29th, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Jura <pristichampsus@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is largely unrelated to the paper, but why is bird pollination called
> ornithophily? Does
> that not translate to "Love of birds" or "Affinity for birds?"
>
> The same goes for entomophily, zoophily, and anemophily. They all mean
> "pollinated by", yet as
> far as I can tell there is nothing in the word itself that has anything to do
> with pollination.
Perhaps the terms use the word 'love' in a sexual context (as in 'paedophily').
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Dann Pigdon
Spatial Data Analyst Australian Dinosaurs
Melbourne, Australia http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
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