echeme

发音

/ˈɛk.iːm/

词形变化

echemes 复数 echemes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A unit of sound produced by insects that can be broken down into multiple physically more basic sound units (syllables).

    生物 动物学

词源

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἤχημα (ḗkhēma, “a sound”), from ἠχέω (ēkhéō, “I make sound, I chirp”) + -μᾰ (-mă, forming nouns form verbal stems). Introduced by Broughton (1976).

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