biodiversity hotspot
短语生物多样性热点
发音
UK
/ˌbaɪə(ʊ)daɪˌvɜːsɪti ˈhɒtˌspɒt/
其它
US
/ˌbaɪoʊdəˌvɚsəti ˈhɑtˌspɑt/
US
/-ɾi/
词形变化
biodiversity hotspots
复数
biodiversity hotspots
别名
hot spot
释义与例句
n.
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1.
A place with a significant level of biodiversity, particularly if the flora and fauna are threatened with loss of their habitat.
生物多样性热点
生物
词源
From biodiversity + hotspot. The word hotspot to describe such regions appears to have been first used by the British environmentalist Norman Myers (1934–2019) in a 1988 article in The Environmentalist.
来源：wiktionary