English Explanatory Dictionary

Pouyannian mimicry

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of mimicry exhibited by some plants, whereby certain flower parts resemble a (female) potential mate for a male of a pollinator species, thus inducing pseudocopulation.

Word forms

Pouyannian mimicry

Etymology

Coined 1982 by Georges Pasteur, after Maurice-Alexandre Pouyanne, who described the behaviour in orchids in a 1916 paper.

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