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单词 summer egg
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summer egg
summer egg n. (usually in plural) a thin-shelled egg that is produced in spring and summer by various (esp. freshwater) invertebrates and develops rapidly; = summer ovum n.Contrasted with winter egg n. at winter n.1 Compounds 2.
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summer ovum1855
1855 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 3 138 I would not lay much stress upon the circumstance that they produce two kinds of ova,—the so-termed ‘summer’ and ‘winter-eggs’ [Ger. Sommer- und Winter-eier].
1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles xii. 169 These so-called ‘summer eggs’ are laid, perhaps twenty or more at a time.
2007 Weekly Times (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 July 83 Adult red-legged earth mites cannot travel far but summer eggs can be blown hundreds of kilometres in strong winds.
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