faeder

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A male ruff (bird, Philomachus pugnax, syn. Calidris pugnax) that permanently mimics a female so as to gain access to mating territories and "steal" matings.
    — Here, we describe a rare female-like morph of ruffs: the ‘missing’ third alternative mating strategy, which we have called ‘faeder’. Faeders are slightly larger than females and in late April have testes 2.5 time the size of testes of normal males.

词形变化

faeders plural fæder alternative

词源

Learned borrowing from Old English fæder (“father”). Doublet of ayr, father, padre, pater, and père.
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