arboreal
常見例句
- The frogs' lifestyle is so thoroughly arboreal that, instead of laying eggs in water, the frogs deposit their eggs in trees.
這種青蛙擁有徹底的樹棲生活方式,一般的蛙類在水中產卵,它連產卵也在樹上; - Some 100m hectares of America's forests went in the 19th century, in an arboreal slaughter similarly reinforced by a belief in the godliness of thus “improving” the land.
19世紀,美國在一次“樹木大砍伐”中就損失了約1億公頃林地。 同樣的,對神的信仰,認為這樣做可以“改善”土地,因而更加鞏固了這一做法。 - Indeed, the trait is so useful for arboreal life that it is used by many avian palaeontologists to decide whether newly excavated species of fossil birds lived in trees or on the ground.
的確,對于樹棲生物這一特點是相當有用的,而許多鳥類古生物學家也利用這一特點來確定新挖掘出的鳥類化石是棲息在樹上還是生活在地面上。 - Recently, one story on the Featured Creature website described the arboreal alligator lizard.
- In one, cover was created with eucalyptus branches and light levels were kept low, mimicking an arboreal habitat.
ECONOMIST: Ecology raids the techniques of chemistry - Selection on an arboreal ape population will be impotent if variations which improve their terrestrial prospects are sparse.
ECONOMIST: A master of evolution takes a last long look at Darwin - Lofty mission statements aside, the principal commercial goals of arboreal genome research are faster growth and more useful wood.
ECONOMIST: GM trees are on their way 返回 arboreal