kairomone

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪɹə(ʊ)məʊn/
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• General-American: /ˈkaɪɹəˌmoʊn/
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Blend of Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós, “advantage; profit”, noun) + English pheromone, coined in the 1970 article “Allomones and Kairomones: Transspecific Chemical Messengers” by the American geneticist William Lacy Brown, Jr. (1913–1991), the German-American ecologist and entomologist Thomas Eisner (1929–2011), and the American ecologist Robert Harding Whittaker (1920–1980) which was published in BioScience: see the quotation.

11 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: kairomona — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Chinese Mandarin: 開洛蒙 /开洛蒙 (kāiluòméng) — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Estonian: kairomoonid — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Finnish: kairomoni — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• French: kairomone — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Galician: cairomona — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• German: Kairomon — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Lithuanian: kairomonas — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Persian: کایرومون — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Spanish: cairomona — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer
• Ukrainian: κайромони (κajromony) — any substance produced by an individual of one species that benefits the recipient which is of a different species but is harmful to the producer