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单词 fungus garden
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Definition of fungus garden in English:

fungus garden

noun
Entomology
  • A growth of fungus cultivated by certain ants or termites as a source of food.

    〔昆〕(由某种蚂蚁或白蚁培植供其食用的)菌圃

    Example sentencesExamples
    • These spheres, packed with fungal spores, are the most prominent feature of the fungus gardens.
    • There are about 200 leaf cutting ant species and they all depend upon fungus gardens for their food.
    • New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens.
    • Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants.
    • Termites tend fungus gardens, leaf cutter ants make underground compost heaps and many species of other ants tend and protect aphids for their honeydew.
    • Large leafcutter or fungus ants cut and carry leaves from an assortment of plants to nests where they keep fungus gardens, which eventually become their food.

Definition of fungus garden in US English:

fungus garden

noun
Entomology
  • A growth of fungus cultivated by certain ants or termites as a source of food.

    〔昆〕(由某种蚂蚁或白蚁培植供其食用的)菌圃

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Large leafcutter or fungus ants cut and carry leaves from an assortment of plants to nests where they keep fungus gardens, which eventually become their food.
    • Intricate reticulated patterns appear in the passageways of the fungus gardens of African termite colonies, and in the crisscrossing trails of foraging army ants.
    • These spheres, packed with fungal spores, are the most prominent feature of the fungus gardens.
    • Termites tend fungus gardens, leaf cutter ants make underground compost heaps and many species of other ants tend and protect aphids for their honeydew.
    • There are about 200 leaf cutting ant species and they all depend upon fungus gardens for their food.
    • New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens.
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