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单词 pseudogyne
释义

pseudogynen.

Brit. /ˈs(j)uːdəˌɡʌɪn/, /ˈs(j)uːdəˌdʒʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈsudəˌɡaɪn/, /ˈsudəˌdʒaɪn/
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, Greek γυνή.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + ancient Greek γυνή woman, wife (see -gynous comb. form), in sense 1 after French pseudogyne parthenogenetic female insect (1878 or earlier), in sense 2 after German Pseudogyne, use as noun of feminine of pseudogyn (adjective) (both E. Wasmann 1895, in Biologisches Centralblatt 15 606). Compare earlier pseudogynous adj., and (with sense 2) slightly later gyne n.
Entomology.
1. A parthenogenetic female insect. Obsolete.
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1879–80 J. Lichtenstein in Entomologist's Monthly Mag. 15 43 The new one ought to receive the name of A[ploneura] radicum, and the forms known to me are the third and fourth phases, this last as winged Pseudogyne.
1883 Amer. Naturalist 17 977 The true egg gives birth to the Pseudogyne fundatrix... The young ones in Ritsemia remain in their parent's skin until they are full sized, and issue only as Pseudogyne, able to lay young at once, or as sexual individuals, able to copulate immediately.
1884 Nature 15 May 69/1 The solitary egg of the female [aphis]..develops into a gall-making aphis, the foundress pseudogyne. This produces..winged young (emigrant pseudogynes).
2. In various ants: a worker of a distinct form having an enlarged and malformed thorax.Originally supposed to result from abnormal development associated with nest parasitism by certain beetles, the condition is now thought to be caused in most cases by an infectious disease of the labial glands.
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1901 Amer. Naturalist 35 885 He [sc. Wasmann] accounts for the pseudogynes of Formica through an attempt on the part of the ants to transform queen larvae into workers.
1957 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 9) iii. 722 In Formica sanguinea, the influence of the Staphylinid Lomechusa leads in the worker to a hypertrophy of the labial glands and a consequent modification of the head and thorax... These so-called ‘pseudogynes’ may develop in the absence of the beetle provided there are pseudogynes in the nest.
2003 Annales Zoologici 53 217 The status of M[yrmica] symbiotica Menozzi remains unclear: it is not an ergatoid queen but could be a pseudogyne worker of a parasitic species with as yet undescribed queens.

Derivatives

pseuˈdogyny n. rare the state or condition of being a pseudogyne (sense 2); the presence of pseudogynes.
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pseudogyny1903
1903 Jrnl. Royal Microsc. Soc. 172 E. Wasmann returns with fresh light to a discussion of ‘pseudogyny’ in Formica sanguinea.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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