autothysis

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A process by which an animal destroys itself via internal rupture or explosion of an organ. uncountable
    — Another example of autothysis, or defensive suicidal rupturing, can be found in Neocapritermes taracua.

词源

From the Ancient Greek roots αὐτός (autós, “self”) and θυσία (thusía, “sacrifice”); proposed by Maschwitz and Maschwitz in 1974 to describe the defensive mechanism of the carpenter ant Camponotus saundersi.
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