disperser

English

Etymology

disperse + -er

Noun

disperser (plural dispersers)

  1. (chemistry) A substance that stabilizes a dispersion; an emulsifier.
  2. (graph theory) A particular kind of bipartite graph.
  3. (ecology) An organism that disperses something, such as seeds, in the environment.
    • 1996, Charles R. Brown, Mary Bomberger Brown, Coloniality in the Cliff Swallow:
      Nesting data from dispersers and nondispersers came from the same set of colonies and were thus directly comparable.
    • 2022 September 19, Schultheiss et al., “The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, page 1, column 1:
      Ants are integral components of terrestrial ecosystems, owing to their manifold interactions with other organisms. They serve as seed dispersers for plants (myrmecochory), mutualists with sap-sucking insects (trophobionts), and hosts for a wide range of associate organisms (myrmecophiles) and act as both predator and prey.

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French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dis.pɛʁ.se/
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Verb

disperser

  1. to scatter; to disperse

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Adjective

disperser

  1. comparative degree of dispers

Adjective

disperser

  1. inflection of dispers:
    1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
    2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
    3. strong genitive plural
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