vagileadj.

/ˈvadʒʌɪl/

/ˈveɪdʒʌɪl/

Etymology: < German vagil, < Latin vagus wandering, straying.

Biology.

Of an organism or group of organisms: having the ability to disperse or be dispersed in a given environment.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective]

mundane1844

cosmopolite1852

cosmopolitan1860

vagile1903

sympatric1904

endemic1905

overdispersed1940

allopatric1942

1903 Amer. Geologist XXXI. 214 Their recent descendants find it..advantageous..to prey upon the much richer fauna of the vagile benthos.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 478 Many small vagile species swim in the water washing the algae.

Derivatives

vaˈgility n. (also figurative).

ΚΠ

1937 W. C. Allee & K. P. Schmidt Hesse's Ecol. Animal Geogr. vi. 76 The power of dispersal of an animal species may be summed up as its ‘vagility’. The less the vagility of a species, the less it is able to overcome barriers..and hence the more numerous the opportunities for independent variation.

1979 E. A. Bloom & L. D. Bloom Satire's Persuasive Voice vi. 269 Eighteenth-century satire registers a widening discontent with the collapse of native culture and, conversely, a search for its own kind of moral vagility.

1981 Science 12 June 1291/2 Taxa with small N_e [sc. effective population size] due to low vagility..are expected to experience rapid..speciation rates.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	vagile
释义	vagileadj. /ˈvadʒʌɪl//ˈveɪdʒʌɪl/ Etymology: < German vagil, < Latin vagus wandering, straying. Biology. Of an organism or group of organisms: having the ability to disperse or be dispersed in a given environment. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > balance of nature > distribution > [adjective] mundane1844 cosmopolite1852 cosmopolitan1860 vagile1903 sympatric1904 endemic1905 overdispersed1940 allopatric1942 1903 Amer. Geologist XXXI. 214 Their recent descendants find it..advantageous..to prey upon the much richer fauna of the vagile benthos. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 478 Many small vagile species swim in the water washing the algae. Derivatives vaˈgility n. (also figurative). ΚΠ 1937 W. C. Allee & K. P. Schmidt Hesse's Ecol. Animal Geogr. vi. 76 The power of dispersal of an animal species may be summed up as its ‘vagility’. The less the vagility of a species, the less it is able to overcome barriers..and hence the more numerous the opportunities for independent variation. 1979 E. A. Bloom & L. D. Bloom Satire's Persuasive Voice vi. 269 Eighteenth-century satire registers a widening discontent with the collapse of native culture and, conversely, a search for its own kind of moral vagility. 1981 Science 12 June 1291/2 Taxa with small N_e [sc. effective population size] due to low vagility..are expected to experience rapid..speciation rates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1903
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