biotremology

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The study of production, dispersion, and reception of vibrations by organisms, and their effect on behavior. uncountable
    — More precisely biotremology studies the communication by surface-borne vibrations, detected by specialized perception organs (e.g. slit-sense organs in spiders, subgenual organs in insects, hair receptors, Pacinian and Herbst corpuscles in vertebrates) measuring the oscillations at a boundary between media.

词源

From bio- + tremology.
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