refugium

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
    — Beetles fly, many ants send forth massive swarms of reproductive alate females and males, arachnids and insect predators emerge from their hidden refugia, and termite swarm.
  2. A separate section of a fishtank that shares the same water supply, used for denitrification, plankton production, etc.

词形变化

refugia plural refugiums plural

词汇关系

衍生词
microrefugium refugial subrefugium

词源

From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.
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