mouthbrooder

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈmaʊθbɹuːdə/    美 /ˈmaʊθˌbɹudɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
    — However, [Franz] Steindachner (1875), in describing Arius planiceps, a catfish from Panama, found that at the breeding season the innermost edges of the ventral fins of the female are developed so as to form a kind of pocket. He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the male, and then taken into his mouth. He found a similar structure on the female of A. kessleri, the male of which is also a mouth brooder.

词形变化

mouthbrooders plural

词源

From mouth + brooder.
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