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单词 pseudergate
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pseudergate
pseudergate n.
Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəɡeɪt/
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U.S. /ˈsudərˌɡeɪt/
[after French pseudergate (P. P. Grassé & C. Noirot 1947, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 224 219), itself after faux-ouvrier (Grassé & Noirot 1947, in Compt. Rend. 223 930); compare earlier macrergate n., micrergate n.] Entomology (now rare) (among certain termites) a blind wingless nymph performing some of the functions of a worker.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Isoptera > member(s) of (termites) > blind or wingless member of colony
pseudergate1957
1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 380 Pseudergates occur in Zootermopsis and..the so-called workers of Mastotermes are probably also of this form.
1979 R. M. Alexander Invertebrates xix. 436 Pseudergates also remove the eggs as the queen lays them.
1990 Ethol., Ecol. & Evol. 2 165 A pseudergate, when alone, hardly ever tried to dig a shelter and its tunneling, if begun, was soon stopped.
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