英语词汇“morpho”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

morpho

/ˈmɔːfəʊ

noun (plural morphos)

A large tropical butterfly, the male of which has bright blue iridescent wings. Native to the Central and South American rainforests, large numbers are caught each year for use in the jewellery trade.

Genus Morpho, subfamily Morphinae, family Nymphalidae.

The blue morpho family of butterflies, from the rainforests of Central and South America, catch the light in their wings to conjure dazzling displays....

What we've done is measure the reflectivity of some of these butterfly's wing regions, the blue morphos, and we found that a non-metallic surface on the wing reflects 85% of the incident blue light on it and that's a huge number really.
We pass single file on a swinging bridge and I see a large morphos butterfly up the tree-shrouded stream, the turquoise circles on its fluttering wings flashing like neon.

Origin

Modern Latin, from Greek Morphō, an epithet of Aphrodite.

单词	morpho
释义	morpho /ˈmɔːfəʊ / noun (plural morphos) A large tropical butterfly, the male of which has bright blue iridescent wings. Native to the Central and South American rainforests, large numbers are caught each year for use in the jewellery trade. Genus Morpho, subfamily Morphinae, family Nymphalidae. The blue morpho family of butterflies, from the rainforests of Central and South America, catch the light in their wings to conjure dazzling displays.... What we've done is measure the reflectivity of some of these butterfly's wing regions, the blue morphos, and we found that a non-metallic surface on the wing reflects 85% of the incident blue light on it and that's a huge number really. We pass single file on a swinging bridge and I see a large morphos butterfly up the tree-shrouded stream, the turquoise circles on its fluttering wings flashing like neon. Origin Modern Latin, from Greek Morphō, an epithet of Aphrodite.
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