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词汇 Collembola
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Definition of Collembola in English:

Collembola

plural nounkəˈlɛmbələkəˈlembələ
Entomology
  • 1An order of insects that comprises the springtails.

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    Example sentencesExamples
    • Accordingly, hexapods are not monophyletic, and both Collembola and ectognathian insects evolved independently from crustacean-like arthropods.
    • Springtails, members of the order Collembola have a history as long as the presence of insects on land, and fossils show that their basic wingless, eyeless body plan has not changed substantially in that time.
    • Tetrodontophora bielanensis is a representative of the apterygotan order Collembola.
    • The world's most abundant insect (although taxonomists debate if they are true insects), Collembola have been around for at least 400 million years and exist in as many as 100,000 varieties.
    • Based on their mouthparts, Hennig joined Protura, Collembola, and Diplura into Entognatha (with enclosed mouthparts), in contrast to Ectognatha (Insecta sensu stricto, with exposed mouthparts).
    1. 1.1 Insects of the order Collembola; springtails.
      弹尾目昆虫;跳虫
      most collembola live in damp places
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Those insects with the lowest [delta] 15 N values - midges and Collembola - are thought to be prominent in the diets of knots and turnstones.
      • Nematodes, Collembola and mites (oribatid, prostigmatid and astigmatid) are known to consume lichens as food.
      • In a separate component of this study, more invertebrates were trapped in upland arrays but most were Collembola.
      • The soil dwelling collembola typically feed on decaying vegetative material, fungi, and bacteria and other species feed on an array of things such as arthropod feces, pollen, algae, and many other substances and materials.
      • The study of Collembola is important in this.

Derivatives

  • collembolan

  • adjective & noun
    Entomology
    • Both the lepidopteran and the trichopteran branches are relatively long and share a common node, a different situation from the plecopteran and the collembolan branches.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The matter focuses on an order of minuscule hexapods called collembolans, or springtails, which includes thousands of species.
      • Lesser rearrangements, involving the reshuffling of tRNA genes, have been documented in honey bees, other hymenopterans, mosquitoes, collembolans, and an anostracan crustacean.
      • In the middle Devonian the first collembolans made their appearance, and by the Pennsylvanian, or late Carboniferous, winged insects were present, including the first mayflies and cockroaches.
      • The oldest well-known fossil hexapod is called Rhyniella praecursor, a collembolan from the Early Devonian age Rhynie Chert.

Origin

Modern Latin (plural), from Greek kolla 'glue' + embolon 'peg, stopper' (with reference to the sticky substance secreted by the ventral tube of the insects).

Definition of Collembola in US English:

Collembola

plural nounkəˈlembələ
Entomology
  • 1An order of insects that comprises the springtails.

    〔昆〕弹尾目

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Springtails, members of the order Collembola have a history as long as the presence of insects on land, and fossils show that their basic wingless, eyeless body plan has not changed substantially in that time.
    • Tetrodontophora bielanensis is a representative of the apterygotan order Collembola.
    • Based on their mouthparts, Hennig joined Protura, Collembola, and Diplura into Entognatha (with enclosed mouthparts), in contrast to Ectognatha (Insecta sensu stricto, with exposed mouthparts).
    • Accordingly, hexapods are not monophyletic, and both Collembola and ectognathian insects evolved independently from crustacean-like arthropods.
    • The world's most abundant insect (although taxonomists debate if they are true insects), Collembola have been around for at least 400 million years and exist in as many as 100,000 varieties.
    1. 1.1 Insects of the order Collembola; springtails.
      弹尾目昆虫;跳虫
      most collembola live in damp places
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Those insects with the lowest [delta] 15 N values - midges and Collembola - are thought to be prominent in the diets of knots and turnstones.
      • Nematodes, Collembola and mites (oribatid, prostigmatid and astigmatid) are known to consume lichens as food.
      • The study of Collembola is important in this.
      • In a separate component of this study, more invertebrates were trapped in upland arrays but most were Collembola.
      • The soil dwelling collembola typically feed on decaying vegetative material, fungi, and bacteria and other species feed on an array of things such as arthropod feces, pollen, algae, and many other substances and materials.

Origin

Modern Latin (plural), from Greek kolla ‘glue’ + embolon ‘peg, stopper’ (with reference to the sticky substance secreted by the ventral tube of the insects).

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