| 单词 |
workerless |
| 释义 |
workerless, a.|ˈwɜːkəlɪs|
[f. worker n. + -less.]
Having no workers; spec. in Ent., designating social insects which have no caste system.
1905W. M. Wheeler in Amer. Museum Jrnl. V. 146 The queen..may continue to live with their hosts as permanent parasites. This seems to be the case..in the workerless species of Anergates, Epœcus, Epipheidole and Sympheidole. 1906Daily News 28 Aug. 7 We must transfer the workless to the workerless land. 1929J. G. Myers Lubbock's Ants, Bees & Wasps (new ed.) 303 Such a workerless parasite as Anergates. 1967J. H. Sudd Introd. Behaviour Ants vii. 140 Anergates atratulus, the workerless parasite of Tetramorium caespitum. 1975Economist 1 Feb. 6/1 The workerless factory, the dockerless port, the driverless transport system, would seem to entail the wageless consumer and the customerless shop. 1988New Scientist 19 Nov. 53/2 A highly analogous phenomenon occurs in some ant colonies, which are invaded by obligately parasitic, workerless queens. |
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