anemophilous

1. 1.

   of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind

   Antonymsentomophilous

Questions about anemophilous

What does anemophilous mean?

anemophilous means "of flowering plants (especially grasses etc) that are pollinated by the wind".

How many syllables are in anemophilous?

anemophilous has 5 syllables: a-ne-mo-phi-lous. The stress falls on "mo".

What is the opposite of anemophilous?

The recorded antonyms are entomophilous.

Is anemophilous a common word?

anemophilous is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.