carcinization

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌkɑːsɪnɪˈzeɪʃn̩/|/-naɪ-/    美 /ˌkɑɹsɪnɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/|/-naɪ-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The convergent evolution of decapod crustaceans from forms dissimilar to true crabs into similar forms. British,English,Oxford,US,uncountable
    — [page 121] Porcellanopagurus is a quite independent case of the phenomenon which may be called "carcinization," and which consists essentially in a reduction of the abdomen of a macrurous crustacean, together with a depression and broadening of its cephalothorax, so that the animal assumes the general habit of body of a crab. [...] [page 125] It may be doubted whether the conditions of life play any part other than a purely permissive one in the realization of the tendency to carcinization. [...] The tendency to carcinization, emerging independently from time to time, has led in each case to different habits, but the obligation to the change must have lain always within, not without the obligation.

词形变化

carcinisation alternative

词源

From Ancient Greek καρκῐ́νος (karkĭ́nos, “crab”) + English -ization (suffix forming nouns denoting the act, process, or result of doing or making something), coined by British zoologist Lancelot Alexander Borradaile (1872–1945) in a 1916 report: see the quotation.
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