sphexish

发音

US /ˈsfɛksɪʃ/
UK /ˈsfɛksɪʃ/

词形变化

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释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Of animal behaviour: deterministic, preprogrammed.

    哲学

词源

From sphex (“sand wasp of Sphex or an allied genus”) + -ish (suffix meaning ‘being like, similar to, typical of’), coined by the American scientist and scholar of comparative literature Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945) in a September 1982 “Metamagical Themas” column in Scientific American, after a study of the behaviour of sphexide wasps. Sphex is derived from Ancient Greek σφήξ (sphḗx, “wasp”), either from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey- (“bee”) or a Pre-Greek word.

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