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单词 natant
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Definition of natant in English:

natant

adjective ˈneɪt(ə)ntˈnātnt
technical, literary
  • Swimming or floating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Previously unstudied and earlier-known specimens have revealed the wide cephalic doublure and median ventral suture in Stenopilus; the hypostome is unknown but was probably natant.
    • Since two of the primitive calymenides, Pharostomina and Bavarilla, had natant hypostomes it seems very likely that the Cambrian sister taxon would also be natant.
    • It is likely that the primitive sister group of the Asaphida was a member of Ptychopariida with a natant hypostomal condition: derived members are either conterminant or impendent.
    • The natant decapods engage in the most extensive grooming.
    • The hypostome and its condition, natant or conterminant, is unknown.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin natant- 'swimming', from the verb natare.

 
 

Definition of natant in US English:

natant

adjectiveˈnātnt
literary, technical
  • Swimming or floating.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The hypostome and its condition, natant or conterminant, is unknown.
    • It is likely that the primitive sister group of the Asaphida was a member of Ptychopariida with a natant hypostomal condition: derived members are either conterminant or impendent.
    • Since two of the primitive calymenides, Pharostomina and Bavarilla, had natant hypostomes it seems very likely that the Cambrian sister taxon would also be natant.
    • The natant decapods engage in the most extensive grooming.
    • Previously unstudied and earlier-known specimens have revealed the wide cephalic doublure and median ventral suture in Stenopilus; the hypostome is unknown but was probably natant.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin natant- ‘swimming’, from the verb natare.

 
 
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