eusocial
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ju:'səʊʃəl]
- 美式音标 [ju'soʊʃəl]
- 国际音标 [ju:'səuʃəl]
- 英式发音
基本解释
- adj.（昆虫）完全社会性的，完全群居的
词根记忆
- eu(好) + social(社会的)→喜欢融入社会的→完全群居的
同根派生
英汉例句
- We tested this idea with a comparative analysis of female mating frequencies in 267 species of eusocial bees, wasps, and ants.
研究人员报告说，在较老的种系中，雌性个体总是单配偶的。 - We found that mating with a single male, which maximizes relatedness, is ancestral for all eight independent eusocial lineages that we investigated.
在少数的雌性与多个雄性交配的例子中，这些种系是较近时才进化成的。 - Eusocial colonies are common among insects such as bees and ants, but the only examples in the mammal world are among furry and the naked mole rats.
群居的族群现象在如蜜蜂和蚂蚁等昆虫世界中很常见,但在哺乳动物中,只有毛鼹鼠和裸鼹鼠会是这样。 - Eusocial - A social strategy marked by a reproductive division of labor, cooperative rearing of young, and overlapping generations.
Eusocial -一种社会的战略特点是生殖分工，合作培育年轻，世代重叠。 - "Different species of ants have different levels of this "reproductive constraint," and we believe those levels provide a measure of how eusocial the colony is.
阿布海夫解释说：“不同种类的蚂蚁种群会有不同程度的‘生育限制’，我们相信，根据这种机制的强度，就可以判断这个殖民群体的社会性强度有多大。
词组短语
- eusocial bee 群居蜂
短语
英英字典
- living in colonies (= groups) with one animal or group producing young and the others working to care for them