单词 | habitat |
释义 | habitatn. a. Natural History. The locality in which a plant or animal naturally grows or lives; habitation. Sometimes applied to the geographical area over which it extends, or the special locality to which it is confined; sometimes restricted to the particular station or spot in which a specimen is found; but chiefly used to indicate the kind of locality, as the sea-shore, rocky cliffs, chalk hills, or the like. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habitat > habitat > [noun] walka1425 seat of living1607 territory1774 habitat1796 stamping ground1821 personal space1937 the world > life > biology > balance of nature > environment or habitat > [noun] station1718 habitat1796 metropolis1826 range1830 reach1849 biosphere1899 1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 70 Common Primrose—Habitat in sylvis sepibus et ericetis ubique.] 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) Dict. Terms 62 Habitatio, the natural place of growth of a plant in its wild state. This is now generally expressed by the word Habitat. 1809 Edinb. Rev. 15 127 It has also flowered..after having been transferred from its native habitat. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 7 A catalogue of some of the more rare plants in the neighbourhood of St. Louis..together with their habitats. 1840 E. Newman Hist. Brit. Ferns (1844) 255 The Black Spleenwort..occurs on rocks as a native habitat. a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) i. 9 The sea is everywhere now..the great habitat of the Algæ. 1874 J. A. Allen in Coues Birds N.W. 294 A mixed race has been long known to exist in the region where their habitats adjoin. b. Hence generally: Dwelling-place; habitation. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] resteOE worthineeOE settlea900 wickc900 houseOE erdinga1000 teld-stedec1000 wonningc1000 innOE bewistc1200 setnessc1200 wanea1225 i-holda1250 wonec1275 wunselec1275 wonning-place1303 bigginga1325 wonning-stede1338 tabernaclea1340 siegec1374 dwelling-placec1380 lodgingc1380 seea1382 tabernaclea1382 habitationc1384 mansionc1385 arresta1400 bowerc1400 wonning-wanec1400 lengingc1420 tenementc1425 tentc1430 abiding placea1450 mansion place1473 domicile1477 lendingc1480 inhabitance1482 biding-place?1520 seat1535 abode1549 remainingc1550 soil1555 household1585 mansion-seata1586 residing1587 habitance1590 fixation1614 situation?1615 commoratorya1641 haft1785 location1795 fanea1839 inhabitancy1853 habitat1854 occupancy1864 nivas1914 downsetting1927 1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 48 But every thing is not a Thing, and all things are good for nothing out of their natural habitat. 1869 D. M. Mulock Woman's Kingdom III. 54 He reached at last Brook Street, that favourite habitat of physicians. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue vii. 311 This word [splotch] has its habitat in Oxfordshire. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 83 Pleas..for accepting an Asiatic origin and habitat for Homer. Compounds habitat form n. the form developed by a race or organism in response to its habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > morphogenesis > derivation or appearance of characters acquired1794 neomorph1886 paedomorphism1892 neotenia1896 habitat form1902 caenogenesis1909 fetalization1922 paedomorphosis1922 hominization1953 synapomorphy1966 synapomorph1969 1902 F. E. Clements in Beiblatt zu den Botanischen Jahrbüchern LXX. 17 A habitat form is the modified form of a species common to two or more formations produced by a particular formation, i.e. habitat, such as the alpine meadow habitat form of Campanula rotundifolia. 1916 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 3) 169/1 Habitat-form, the impress given to the plant by the habitat. habitat group n. any group of species whose members favour a similar habitat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > population > [noun] > type of swarm1560 isotype1881 habitat group1898 guild1903 microcolony1925 thanatocœnosis1953 ecomorph1954 community1957 subpopulation1959 micropopulation1966 1898 R. Pound & F. E. Clements Phytogeogr. Nebraska iv. 93 A habitat group is a group of species, which are subject to similar physical conditions, and frequent like habitats. 1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles I. 57 This ‘bionomic classification’, as the method is called, is based on habitat-groups. 1962 Conservationist June–July 20/2 Four new life-size dioramas (natural habitat groups) of four types of fish areas in Rochester and Munroe County are featured in permanent exhibitions in the Hall of Natural Science at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1796 |
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