Andromeda strain

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any microorganism whose release and spread could cause a public health catastrophe.
    — Trout are important to those of us who enjoy angling, but trout are unimportant if this Andromeda Strain of destruction without replacement—which began more than 200 years ago and burgeoned in the twentieth century—continues.

词形变化

Andromeda strains plural

词源

After The Andromeda Strain (1969), techno-thriller novel by Michael Crichton documenting the efforts of a team of scientists investigating the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona.
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