| 单词 | worker-brood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasworker-brood a. General attributive and appositive, as worker-brood, worker-wasp, etc.; instrumental, as worker-laid adj., etc. Π 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxiv. 394 When all the worker-brood was removed from a hive, and only male brood left. 1873 J. G. Wood Insects at Home 351 By this time the number of worker-wasps has increased so much that a second tier of cells is needed for their energies to be expended on. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 278 White Ants... After she has worker-daughters to help her and feed her, she often swells up to a length of three or four inches, her abdomen becoming grossly distended with food and ova. 1991 Adv. Insect Physiol. 23 128 Within the worker caste there is usually a further division of labour such that individuals vary in their probabilities of performing the different tasks associated with social living. 2004 Science 18 June 1719/2 In honeybees, worker-laid eggs..are usually removed from the nest by other workers. < as lemmas |
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