| 单词 | pseudergate | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspseudergate   pseudergate  n.  Brit.  , U.S.  				 [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.ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas  | 
	
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