| 单词 | mouth-brooding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmouth-brooding mouth-brooding adj. designating a type of fish that protects its eggs, and sometimes its newly hatched offspring, by carrying them in the mouth. ΚΠ 1959 Evolution 13 448/2 One can at least be sure that they [sc. species of the Nyasa basin] are not mouth-brooding fishes. 1988 Guinness Bk. Records 1989 37/2 The mouth-brooding cichlid Tropheus moorii of Lake Tanganyika..produces 7 eggs or less during normal reproduction. 1992 Pract. Fishkeeping Mar. 16/3 Most of the Mbuna cichlids are mouthbrooding species. < as lemmas |
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