单词 | pseudergate |
释义 | > as lemmaspseudergate pseudergate n. Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəɡeɪt/ , 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.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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