autothysis

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A process by which an animal destroys itself via internal rupture or explosion of an organ.

    不可数 生物

词源

From the Ancient Greek roots αὐτός (autós, “self”) and θυσία (thusía, “sacrifice”); proposed by Maschwitz and Maschwitz in 1974 to describe the defensive mechanism of the carpenter ant Camponotus saundersi.

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