中英互译
living fossil
基本释义
- 活化石:一种生物(如蛇目蟹或银杏树),其在较早的地质时期基本上没有发生变化,并且其近亲通常已经灭绝。
双语例句
- Related: "Bloodsucking Lamprey Found to Be 'Living Fossil.'"相关文献:“活化石——吸血七腮鳗”
- The remipede is a "living fossil" nearly unchanged for 300 million years.这种多足甲壳类动物remipede是一种“活化石”,3亿年来,这种生物都没有进化过。
- But the truth may never be known, since the "living fossil" died hours after it was caught.但是,事实究竟是怎样现在已无法弄清,因为这条“活化石”鲨鱼在被捉住后数小时便死去了。
网络短语
- living fossil plant活化石植物
- living fossil plants活化石植物
- living fossil gymnosperm活化石裸子植物
- living g fossil活化石
英英释义
- A living fossil is a living species (or clade) of organism that appears to be similar to a species otherwise known only from fossils, typically with no close living relatives. Normally the similarity is only apparent, between two different species, one extinct, the other extant.