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单词 superabundant
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Definition of superabundant in English:

superabundant

adjective suːp(ə)rəˈbʌnd(ə)ntˌsupərəˈbəndənt
  • more formal or literary term for overabundant
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many will only add to the already superabundant store of bad writing.
    • Silicon is superabundant; it is cheap; its products are light to transport: its production carries few and small pollution risks; its power demands are low.
    • He provides superabundant food for thousands of people.
    • Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
    • Explanatory metaphors for ‘this’ ‘it’ ‘things’ are now superabundant so that the reader is made certain what is being talked about.
    • When the idea becomes common property it is like any other superabundant element in production, a free good and no longer a productive factor in the effective economic sense.
    • Nomadic species take advantage of temporary superabundant food resources that are unpredictable in time and space.
    • Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
    • Similarly, he assumed that migrants can only occur where food is superabundant.
    • If predators such as raccoons are superabundant in small forest fragments, then increased predation from these animals could be an important source of mortality for bats roosting within these habitats.
    • However, a more important reason, and the basic one, was surely that fuel has long been in short supply in the Near East but used to be superabundant in Europe, as deforestation proceeded.

Derivatives

  • superabundance

  • noun suːpərəˈbʌnd(ə)nsˌsup(ə)rəˈbənd(ə)ns
    • Their ruthless exploitation was guided by the myth of superabundance: the belief that water, soil, forests, wildlife and fisheries were inexhaustible.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Or was I supposed to admire it as a superabundance of vitality for which I was never going to be any match?
      • The superabundance of media is truly unprecedented, and so is the challenge that they pose to our autonomy as thinking individuals rather than just consumers.
      • The 33-page document, published on Tuesday, provided a superabundance of generalities and concepts, but remained abstract on firm spending targets.
      • In Finland, blessed with a superabundance of trees, wood has assumed the status of national material, its expressive and regenerative qualities forging a powerful connection with the Finnish psyche.
  • superabundantly

  • adverb
    • All artists, who deal with those arts, have these qualities superabundantly, and have them balanced in such exquisite order that they can use them for purposes of creation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These sayings refer to ‘a God who is generous to enemies and friends alike, who is superabundantly provident…’
      • Such looks of acceptance would make my very soul soar up and I would feel great and superabundantly happy.
      • Yet it is superabundantly clear that the personal mental and emotional experience accompanying the collective concept of ‘red’ is vastly different from person to person.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense 'very plentiful'): from late Latin superabundant- 'abounding to excess', from the verb superabundare.

 
 

Definition of superabundant in US English:

superabundant

adjectiveˌso͞opərəˈbəndəntˌsupərəˈbəndənt
  • Excessive in quantity; more than sufficient; overabundant.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Explanatory metaphors for ‘this’ ‘it’ ‘things’ are now superabundant so that the reader is made certain what is being talked about.
    • Nomadic species take advantage of temporary superabundant food resources that are unpredictable in time and space.
    • Silicon is superabundant; it is cheap; its products are light to transport: its production carries few and small pollution risks; its power demands are low.
    • However, a more important reason, and the basic one, was surely that fuel has long been in short supply in the Near East but used to be superabundant in Europe, as deforestation proceeded.
    • He provides superabundant food for thousands of people.
    • Truly cold-blooded animals like lizards, newts, turtles, and crocodilians, which are superabundant farther south are missing, he said.
    • Many will only add to the already superabundant store of bad writing.
    • If predators such as raccoons are superabundant in small forest fragments, then increased predation from these animals could be an important source of mortality for bats roosting within these habitats.
    • When the idea becomes common property it is like any other superabundant element in production, a free good and no longer a productive factor in the effective economic sense.
    • Members of such groups sometimes even feed peacefully side by side on superabundant resources in areas of territorial overlap, as occurs in the baboons I studied.
    • Similarly, he assumed that migrants can only occur where food is superabundant.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the sense ‘very plentiful’): from late Latin superabundant- ‘abounding to excess’, from the verb superabundare.

 
 
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