| 单词 | nurse worker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnurse worker b. (In sense 5a.) nurse ant, nurse bee, nurse worker, etc. ΚΠ 1818 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (ed. 3) I. xv. 493 The nurse-bees..do secrete wax, but in very small quantities. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 60/1 A sort of barren females,..variously termed neuters, workers, or nurse-ants. 1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xii. 190 All larvae..are fed on the same kind of food the first three days. This is a rich, predigested food supplied by the nurse bees and called ‘royal jelly’. 1995 Amer. Naturalist 145 844 In [the ant] Lasius flavus, the mite Antennophorus grandis has been shown to occur preferentially on the smaller nurse workers. < as lemmas |
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