英语词汇“mimic beetle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. Biology. An animal or plant, or a feature of one, which exhibits biological mimicry. Also †mimic beetle.

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1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 408 This position is always assumed by these Beetles [Histeridæ and Byrrhidæ] when alarmed; and, from this assumption of a death-like attitude, some of the commonest species have received the name of Mimic Beetles.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 574 Mimicry... It is pretty clear that the Mimeta..is rightly named the mimic, since it is a comparatively weak bird, and must benefit by being mistaken for the strong, pugnacious and noisy Philemon.

1907 Nature 31 Oct. 673/2 An insect thus resembled by another is spoken of as its ‘model’, the imitating insect is called a ‘mimic’.

1937 H. D. Peile Guide Coll. Butterflies of India 76 The females of this genus appear to be mimics of common blue and black Danaids.

1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects x. 166 The mimic will begin to lose its protective advantage if it becomes too numerous.

1987 Sci. Amer. Sept. 75/2 Some weed mimics have, by virtue of their similarity to crop species, become crops of major importance themselves.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xiv. 221 He paints the celebrated ocelli (eyespots) of the tail feathers as leaf mimics.

单词	mimic beetle
释义	> as lemmas mimic beetle a. Biology. An animal or plant, or a feature of one, which exhibits biological mimicry. Also †mimic beetle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > similarity between different organisms > mimesis > mimetic plant or animal mimic1855 mocker1866 Batesian mimic1951 1855 W. S. Dallas in Syst. Nat. Hist. I. 408 This position is always assumed by these Beetles [Histeridæ and Byrrhidæ] when alarmed; and, from this assumption of a death-like attitude, some of the commonest species have received the name of Mimic Beetles. 1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 574 Mimicry... It is pretty clear that the Mimeta..is rightly named the mimic, since it is a comparatively weak bird, and must benefit by being mistaken for the strong, pugnacious and noisy Philemon. 1907 Nature 31 Oct. 673/2 An insect thus resembled by another is spoken of as its ‘model’, the imitating insect is called a ‘mimic’. 1937 H. D. Peile Guide Coll. Butterflies of India 76 The females of this genus appear to be mimics of common blue and black Danaids. 1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects x. 166 The mimic will begin to lose its protective advantage if it becomes too numerous. 1987 Sci. Amer. Sept. 75/2 Some weed mimics have, by virtue of their similarity to crop species, become crops of major importance themselves. 1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus xiv. 221 He paints the celebrated ocelli (eyespots) of the tail feathers as leaf mimics. extracted from mimicadj.n. < as lemmas
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