单词 | africanized |
释义 | Africanizedadj. 1. Made African in character or form. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > [adjective] > made Africanized1837 1837 S. Kay Succinct Statem. Kaffer's Case 59 The sentiments of an Africanized relative. 1865 Cincinnati Commerc. 4 July 1/2 A Yankee voice with Africanized accent. 1905 Tablet 21 Oct. 649/2 They have become thoroughly Africanised, speak only the Ethiopian language. 1958 Economist 13 Dec. (African Suppl.) 7/2 The fate of Africa in the next decade, therefore, depends upon economic advance catching up with political advance in the ‘Africanised’ north and west. 1991 P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Music 238 In 1975, a new Africanised variant on the Rio-style samba school was born in the form of the big percussion marching bands known as ‘Afro-blocos’. 2007 Daily Tel. 12 Nov. 29/1 Baile funk and kuduro are Africanised interpretations of contemporary US and European dance music. 2. Designating an unusually aggressive variety of honeybee, originally produced by crossing the African subspecies Apis mellifera scutellata with a European one. Of a colony, population, etc.: comprising such bees.Africanized honeybees in the Americas are descended from African bees accidentally released in Brazil in 1957. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [adjective] > belonging to division Petiolata > belonging to division Anthophila > of or belonging to bees > belonging to family Apinae euglossine1966 Africanized1970 1970 Amer. Bee Jrnl. 110 460 ‘Selected’ Africanized bees produce large amounts of brood, resulting in rapid colony building. 1989 Nature 18 May 182/1 These authors maintain that European bees have not contributed significantly to the feral, Africanized gene pool. 2005 A. Burdick Out of Eden (2006) 8 Africanized bees have reached California; stinging colonies of South American fire ants have settled in Texas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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