Discussion
What do you understand by 'Chiropterophily' ?
Answer: D
Chiropterophily means pollination by bats.
The word comes from Chiroptera, the order of bats, and -phily, 'love of'. Bat-pollinated flowers usually open at night, are large and pale, have a strong musty smell and produce plenty of nectar, as in Kigelia, baobab and some bananas.
Pollination by insects is entomophily, by snails malacophily, and by air (wind) anemophily.
Other pollination terms follow the same pattern: ornithophily is pollination by birds, hydrophily by water, and zoophily is the general term for pollination by animals.
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