单词 | artemia |
释义 | Artemian. Zoology. A genus of branchiopod crustaceans (order Anostraca) comprising small shrimp-like animals found in salt lakes, salt pans, and other aquatic habitats with a high salinity. Also: an animal of this genus, esp. one of the common species A. salina, sometimes bred as aquarium food (also in form artemia); also called brine shrimp. ΚΠ 1835 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 125 323 The Entomostraca are admitted on all hands to undergo very material modifications of form... Mr. Thompson's recent memoir upon Artemia..is an additional evidence of the same fact. 1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea ii. 14 The brine shrimp, Artemia, breeds in vast numbers in the mud of the great Salt Lake in Utah. 1913 W. E. Kellicott Textbk. Gen. Embryol. iv. 158 (caption) Maturation in the parthenogenetic egg of the brine-shrimp, Artemia. 1968 H. M. Lenhoff in M. Florkin & B. T. Scheer Chem. Zool. II. ii. iii. 213 A simple method for hatching axenic Artemia , the chief laboratory food of many coelenterates. 2003 Pract. Fishkeeping Aug. 12/3 The Orange chromide is a carnivore/piscivore, so its diet should include live foods such as daphnia, artemia, bloodworms, and mosquito larvae. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1835 |
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