annidation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The adaptation of the various genotypes to different ecological niches, such as where a mutant form of a species is maintained in a population because it can flourish in a way that the parent organisms cannot.
    — Flax grew more rapidly and matured earlier than linseed and this difference in timing of growth led to annidation.

词形变化

annidations plural

词源

From Latin ad (“to”) and nidus (“nest”).
Coined by German biologist and university teacher Wilhelm Ludwig in 1950 as "a fifth evolutionary factor".
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