单词 | fundatrix |
释义 | fundatrixn.ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > [noun] > institution or founding > one who or that which founds or establishes aginnera1300 founder1340 grounder14.. foundatorc1425 stablement1481 stablisher1535 institutera1538 patriarcha1538 institutor1546 erector1548 inventor1548 fundatrix1549 upsetter1581 establishera1600 co-founder1605 co-foundress1631 planter1632 institutive1644 instaurator1660 institutrix1706 institutress1788 godfather1830 founding father1903 founder member1909 1549 N. Ridley Let. 18 May in J. Bradford Writings (1853) (modernized text) II. 371 The fundatrix' purpose was wondrous godly, her fact was godly. 1747 J. Brett in Collectanea Hibernica (1965) 8 78 Mistress Susan O'Fallon, who is to be fundatrix, is a most pious and virtuous lady. 1887 Illustr. London News 27 Aug. 256/2 Cannot Balliol men..spell the Latin name of the ancient Fundatrix? 2. Entomology. The founding female of a colony of aphids or related insects, which hatches from a fertilized egg and produces young through parthenogenesis. Also called stem mother. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > founding female of colony stem mother1878 fundatrix1881 1881 G. B. Buckton Monogr. Brit. Aphides III. 114 The Queen Aphis (fundatrix) is large, pale lilac, with green spots, indicating the embryos. 1923 H. Maxwell-Lefroy Man. Entomol. 272 These first females are known as fundatrices, or stem-mothers. 1952 E. O. Essig & F. Abernathy Aphid Genus Periphyllus 41 The mature fundatrix is wingless. 1996 T. Unwin Wine & Vine ii. 40 From an overwintering egg found on a vine, a female fundatrix larva emerges to find a leaf, where it produces a gall by feeding on the sap. 2001 Florida Entomologist 84 432/2 Another colony..contained a single fundatrix, two winged adults, and 7,437 nymphs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。