anthropochory

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The (typically inadvertent) dispersal of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, by humans as a routine means of reproductive dispersal of that species.
The (typically inadvertent and sporadic) dispersal by humans, of seeds, spores, or other reproductive botanical material, or of reproductively capable animals, into a region where they do not natively occur, resulting in adventitious anthropochorous establishment of an alien population if successful.

anthropochory

From anthropo- + -chory.

anthropochore anthropochoric anthropochorous ectoanthropochory endoanthropochory

French: anthropochorie Greek: ανθρωποχωρία Portuguese: antropocoria Russian: антропохори́я

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