inquiline

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species.
    — The other study[…]involved the larvae of the caterpillar Maculinea rebeli, an inquiline of Myrmica schenki.
  2. An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf.
    — Captured prey also constitute the resource base for a community of inquiline bacteria, protozoa, and invertebrates that inhabit the water-filled pitchers. For at least two of these inquilines (the pitcher-plant mosquito Wyeomyia smithii Coquillet and the pitcher-plant midge Metriocnemus knabi Coquillet) the availability of captured prey limits individual growth, and ultimately population growth[…]

词形变化

inquilines plural

词汇关系

衍生词
inquilinism inquilinous

词源

From Latin inquilīnus (“tenant, lodger”).
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