单词 | myrmecophile |
释义 | myrmecophileadj.n. Zoology and Botany. A. adj. = myrmecophilous adj. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by nutrition or respiration > [adjective] > living in symbiotic relationship myrmecophilous1866 myrmecophile1896 myrmecophilic1969 1896 Amer. Naturalist 30 496 (heading) The relation of myrmecophile lepismids to the ants. 1921 Trans. Entomol. Soc. London 311 Myrmecophile mimics. B. n. An invertebrate or plant that has a symbiotic relationship with ants (for example, being tended and protected by ants, or living inside an ant nest). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined as social insect or association of > that lives in ant-hill myrmecophile1898 1898 Nat. Sci. May 324 The progeny (eggs, larvae and nymphs)..can also be utilised by the myrmecophiles. 1927 H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe Guests of Brit. Ants p. xv A large number of creatures do manage to live in or near ants' nests. Such creatures when associated with, and not merely present with ants, are known as myrmecophiles. 1965 B. E. Freeman tr. A. Vandel Biospeleol. i. 8 Certain myrmecophiles show characteristics which are unquestionably those of the cavernicolous. 1990 Naturalist Apr.–June 67 The species [sc. Acrotrichis montandoni] is also a well-known myrmecophile, in nests of the northern wood ant. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1896 |
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