| 英语单词 | mutant |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['mjuːtənt] 美 ['mjuːtənt] |
| 中文释义 | n.突变异种 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Yellow-green seedling mutant is a recessive mutant of pepper. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 辣椒黄绿苗突变体是辣椒叶色黄绿色隐性突变体。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When an animal's genes change, or mutate, the new form of the animal that results is a mutant. One example of such a mutant is a blue lobster. Another is the teenage mutant ninja turtle. |
| vocabulary扩展 | You can use the scientific term mutant for any plant or animal that's the result of a change, or mutation, in the DNA of that organism. When the word is used as an adjective, it describes something having to do with this kind of mutation, like a mutant chromosome or a mutant lobster. Mutant stems from the Latin mutantem, which means "changing." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]变种;突变体 A mutant is an animal or plant that is physically different from others of the same species because of a change in its genes. |
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