cultigen

n. 分类学来源不详之生物或植物(如白菜)

发音

UK /ˈkʌl.tɪ.d͡ʒɛn/
UK /ˈkʌl.tɪ.d͡ʒən/

词形变化

cultigens 复数 cultigens

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.

    植物学 生物 商务

词源

From culti(vated) + -gen, or from Latin cultus (“cultivated”) + gēns (“kind”). Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.

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