| 单词 | hybrid swarm |
| 释义 | > as lemmashybrid swarm hybrid swarm n. Ecology a variable population caused by the hybridization of neighbouring species. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > swarm > hybrid swarm hybrid swarm1926 swarm1926 1926 Nature 30 Oct. 623/2 (heading) The naming of wild hybrid swarms. 1926 Nature 30 Oct. 624 Nor do the ‘Rules’ have in view the existence of the highly polymorphic hybrid swarms—in no few cases hundreds or probably thousands of distinct individuals—that are known to exist. 1947 New Phytologist 46 229 The Oxlip is confined in Britain to a small area in East Anglia, and at the edges of this area Oxlip-Primrose hybrid populations are found; such well-defined hybrid swarms are not common amongst British plants. 1963 E. Mayr Animal Species & Evol. vi. 118 The barrier between two sympatric species sometimes breaks down so completely, locally or over wide areas, that the two parental species are replaced by a hybrid swarm that serves as a continuous bridge between the two parental extremes. 1969 D. Briggs & S. M. Walters Plant Variation & Evol. xi. 186 Hybrid swarms are found in which there is a remarkable range of variation. < as lemmas |
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