[Taxacom] We need a new word

[Robert Mill]

A very quick Googling of "anthropochore" on ordinary Google search
yields over 16,000 hits, and there are 207 hits in Google Scholar - the
word has already been used many times in the botanical and
archaeological literature, for plants dispersed by humans. You will even
find a Russian paper (Botanicheskii Zhurnal in 1959) on "a contribution
to the classification of anthropochores". I presume this is about the
plants, not ourselves! 

Dr Robert Mill
Gymnosperm Systematist
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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Geoff Read
Sent: 02 November 2009 00:44
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] We need a new word

Take your pick. There are lots of '... chore' words at wordinfo:

http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/459/1

I was pleased to see indiochore, indiochory, indiochorous for
an organism that distributes itself. We are all indiochores then?
Derivation? And there's gynochore, gynochory, gynochoric
An organism that is dispersed by wandering or motile females. Why
females?

They have brotochore - A plant that is dispersed by humans.

But really I think the human-did-it ones, though entertaining, are
largely
superfluous. Elton got by with "introduced" and 'introduction'.

Geoff


>>> On 2/11/2009 at 6:31 a.m., "Robin Leech" <releech at telus.net> wrote:
> Hi Taxacomers,
>
> I have felt the need for a new word related to
>
> ANTHROPOCHOROUS.
>
> This word describes the phenomenon.  What we
> need is a word that covers the organism,
> and I propose
>
> ANTHROPOCHORITE.
>
> This will be one of those situations where the
> adjective came before the noun.
>
> Any comments?

--
Geoffrey B. Read, Ph.D.
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
gread at actrix.gen.nz


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