| 单词 | summer egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmassummer egg summer egg n. (usually in plural) a thin-shelled egg that is produced in spring and summer by various (esp. freshwater) invertebrates and develops rapidly; = summer ovum n.Contrasted with winter egg n. at winter n.1 Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > summer eggs summer egg1855 summer ovum1855 1855 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 3 138 I would not lay much stress upon the circumstance that they produce two kinds of ova,—the so-termed ‘summer’ and ‘winter-eggs’ [Ger. Sommer- und Winter-eier]. 1952 J. Clegg Freshwater Life Brit. Isles xii. 169 These so-called ‘summer eggs’ are laid, perhaps twenty or more at a time. 2007 Weekly Times (Melbourne) (Nexis) 11 July 83 Adult red-legged earth mites cannot travel far but summer eggs can be blown hundreds of kilometres in strong winds. < as lemmas |
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