单词 | juvenilizing |
释义 | juvenilizingadj. Rendering young or youthful; that preserves youth, rejuvenating; chiefly Entomology, producing or pertaining to the arrest or reversal of the maturation of an insect or its organs. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > young person > [adjective] > rendering youthful juvenilizing1959 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [adjective] > relating to arrest or reversal of maturation juvenilizing1959 1959 Punch 19 Aug. 52/1 To keep that lovely youthful contour pat in the deeply nourishing, juvenilizing cream for half an hour each morning and evening. 1969 Life Sci. 8 831 Their failure to induce a juvenilizing effect was puzzling since the larvae readily react to tiny amounts of Cecropia juvenile hormone. 1973 Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 70 293 It is important to note that low doses of juvenilizing substances which affected older larvae had no effect on younger larvae. 1981 Toxicology 19 268 The possible juvenilizing effects of Dimilin and Altosid against larvae of Culex pipiens..were studied. 1989 Compar. Biochem. & Physiol. A. 92 163 At 18°C the last instar Galleria mellonella larvae respond to juvenilizing treatment—chilling stress or juvenile hormone analogue—with a very low percentage or no supernumerary moults, respectively. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1959 |
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