English Explanatory Dictionary

necrophoresis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The practice, of some ants, of removing dead bodies from the colony

Word forms

necrophoresis necrophoreses

Etymology

From necro- + -phoresis.

Related words

necrophoretic
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