xenoparous
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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Of or relating to a reproductive strategy in which a female produces offspring of a different species without a process of hybridization.
— We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle. This shows the evolution of xenoparity (xeno-, meaning ‘foreign, strange, different’, and -parity, meaning ‘produce, bring forth, give birth’), which is the need to propagate another species’ genome by means of its own eggs. […] We suggest defining such females as xenoparous, meaning they need to produce individuals of another species as part of their life cycle.
词源
From Latin xeno- (“strangeness”) + pariō (“give birth, produce, bring forth”), equivalent to xeno- + -parous. Coined by Yannick Juvé and colleagues in 2025.
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