| 单词 | sexual dimorphism |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexual dimorphism sexual dimorphism n. the condition in which there exist marked differences in size, form, or appearance between the sexes of a species in addition to differences in the reproductive organs themselves. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > sexual organs > sexual dimorphism sexual dimorphism1853 1853 A. Gray Plantæ Wrightianæ Texano-Neo-Mexicanæ in Smithsonian Contrib. Knowl. 5 25 The ‘purple’ flowers are twice the size of those of O[xalis] stricta... There is probably a sexual dimorphism. 1877 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1876–7 12 150 (title) Antigeny, or sexual dimorphism in butterflies. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 625/2 Bonellia and Hamingia are very interesting examples of sexual dimorphism... The male is reduced to a minute..organism, which passes its life..in a special recess of the nephridia of the female. 1970 Cambr. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) I. i. v. 156 Even allowing for marked sexual dimorphism it is still obvious that more than one species [of australopithecine] demands recognition. 2000 K. Deaux & B. Major in M. S. Kimmel & A. Aronson Gendered Society Reader 81 Taking sexual dimorphism as a starting point, investigators have tried to establish, or in some cases refute, the existence of differences between women and men. < as lemmas |
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