repugnatorial

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Defensive or repulsive, particularly as applied to glands of certain invertebrates, with which they produce poisonous or repugnant secretions when under threat.
    — Certain beetles are endowed with eversible repugnatorial glands. Eleodes gigantea ... of both sexes ... when teased ... stand on their anterior and middle legs, holding the abdomen high up and spurting the contents of the glands right and left ... The liquid stains the human skin, has ... a peculiar, intensely penetrant odor, causing the eye to lachrymate.

词形变化

more repugnatorial comparative most repugnatorial superlative

词源

From Latin repugnatorius.
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