| 单词 | animate thing |
| 释义 | animate thing (once / 203782 pages) n WORD FAMILY animate thing: animate things USAGE EXAMPLESOur eyes pained with the intense fixity of gazing, yet no animate thing appeared. Cook, Frederick A., My Attainment of the Pole(2011) The metal foil sagged under him and slanted downward, trying like some animate thing to rid itself of the unwonted burden. Zagat, Arthur Leo, The Great Dome on Mercury(2010) He seemed to throw out a strange devitalizing force that acted as well upon inanimate as upon animate things. Beard, Harry, Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of N...(2010) n a living (or once living) entity Syn|Hypo|Hyper living thing being, organism a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently lifeliving things collectively bionta discrete unit of living matter cell(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals benthosorganisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea dwarfa plant or animal that is atypically small heterotrophan organism that depends on complex organic substances for nutrition parentan organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soula human being animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, faunaa living organism characterized by voluntary movement flora, plant, plant life(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion nativeindigenous plants and animals recombinanta cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred conspecifican organism belonging to the same species as another organism carrier(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not apparent but can be passed on to offspring denizena plant or animal naturalized in a region amphidiploid(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent diploid(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number haploid(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes heteroploid(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species polyploid(genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes animalcule, animalculummicroscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium micro-organism, microorganismany organism of microscopic size aerobean organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life anaerobean organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live cross, crossbreed, hybrid(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species polymorphan organism that can assume more than one adult form as in the castes of ants or termites congenator, congener, congeneric, relativean animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) planktonthe aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water nektonthe aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales parasitean animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host hostan animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association commensaleither of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent myrmecophilean organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant eucaryote, eukaryotean organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells procaryote, prokaryotea unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei; bacteria are the prime example but also included are blue-green algae and actinomycetes and mycoplasma zooidone of the distinct individuals forming a colonial animal such as a bryozoan or hydrozoan blastomereany cell resulting from cleavage of a fertilized egg flagellated cellany cell or one-celled organism equipped with a flagellum fiber, fibreany of several elongated, threadlike cells (especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber) Kupffer's cellspecialized cells in the liver that destroy bacteria, foreign proteins, and worn-out blood cells beta cella cell that produces insulin in the isles of Langerhans in the pancreas somatic cell, vegetative cellany of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes blastemaa mass of undifferentiated cells from which an organ or body part develops fertilized ovum, zygote(genetics) the diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (including the organism that develops from that cell) parthenotea cell resulting from parthenogenesis embryonic cell, formative cella cell of an embryo acaryote, akaryocyte, akaryotea cell without a nucleus (as an erythrocyte) germ cell, reproductive cell, sex cella spermatozoon or an ovum; a cell responsible for transmitting DNA to the next generation gametocytean immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis polar bodya small cell containing little cytoplasm that is produced along with the oocyte and later discarded Leydig cell, Leydig's cella cell in the testes that secretes the hormone testosterone Sertoli cell, Sertoli's cellelongated cells found in the seminiferous tubules of the testis; apparently they nourish the spermatids clon, clonea group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction wildlifeall living things (except people) that are undomesticated atavist, throwbackan organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism individuala single organism mascota person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure mutant, mutation, sport, variation(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration postdiluviananything living after Noah's flood sitteran organism (person or animal) that sits standeran organism (person or animal) that stands utterer, vocaliser, vocalizeran organism that can utter vocal sounds plant cella cell that is a structural and functional unit of a plant archespore, archesporiumprimitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops daughter cella cell formed by the division or budding of another cell mother cellcell from which another cell of an organism (usually of a different sort) develops fungusan organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia nonvascular organismorganisms without vascular tissue: e.g. algae, lichens, fungi, mosses relictan organism or species surviving as a remnant of an otherwise extinct flora or fauna in an environment much changed from that in which it originated arthrosporeone of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi arthrosporea body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria saprophyte, saprophytic organisman organism that feeds on dead organic matter especially a fungus or bacterium saprobean organism that lives in and derives its nourishment from organic matter in stagnant or foul water katharobean organism that lives in an oxygenated medium lacking organic matter unit, whole an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity |
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