释义 |
primite Zool.|ˈpraɪmaɪt| [f. L. prīm-us first (see prime a.) + -ite1 3.] The first member of a catenated series of gregarines.
1898Sedgwick Text Bk. Zool. I. 57 The anterior individual of an association is called the primite, the rest the satellites. 1901G. N. Calkins Protozoa v. 156 Catenoid colonies, where the protomerite of one [individual] (satellite) becomes attached to the deutomerite of another (primite). |