英语释义

• only extant member of the order Rhynchocephalia of large spiny lizard-like diapsid reptiles of coastal islands off New Zealand

片语

Tuatara Pilsner大蜥蜴

guana大蜥蜴，巨蜥

tuatara a古蜥蜴

TUATARA SOFTWARE LIMITED公司名称

Tuatara Brewing Company大蜥蜴酿酒公司

Curse of the Tuatara唱片名

the tuatara楔齿蜥蝪

leguan大蜥蜴

SSC Tuatara大蜥蜴

英汉例句

• tuatara have such a slow lifestyle that they probably won「t adapt to the temperature bumps modeled in this study, according to mitchell.

  按照mitchell的看法，模型中的鳄蜥之所以无法适应气温上升的环境，是由于它们原始的生活方式。

• they found that, although tuatara have remained largely physically unchanged over very long periods of evolution, they are evolving - at a dna level - faster than any other animal yet examined.

  他们发现，虽然刺背鳄蜥的大部分形态在长期的进化中并没有产生变化，但从dna层面上看，它们比其他已经检测过的动物的进化速度都要快。

• of course we would have expected that the tuatara , which does everything slowly -- they grow slowly, reproduce slowly and have a very slow metabolism -- would have evolved slowly.

  我们本以为刺背鳄蜥应该进化得很慢，就像它们做什么事都很慢一样——长得慢，繁殖慢，新陈代谢也慢。

• less than one degree celsius (1.8 degrees fahrenheit) is all that stands between the tuatara —new zealand」s 「living fossil」 reptile—and extinction, scientists say.

  不用一摄氏度就能决定「活化石」-新西兰大蜥蜴的生死存亡。

• however, while a boost in temperature generally results in a nest full of more females than males, the opposite is true for tuatara whose offspring skew toward male in warmer climes.

  通常来说，如果温度升高，雌性后代的出生率就会高一些。但鳄蜥的情况正相反，在更温暖的环境下，雄性后代的出生率更高。

• photo gallery: jurassic period clinging to life on an offshore crag, a tuatara looks little different from his jurassic relatives.

  侏罗纪时代图片集。死抱着在海面上的峭壁，一只新西兰大蜥蜴看起来有点不同，从它的侏罗系的亲属。

• photo gallery: jurassic period clinging to life on an offshore crag, a tuatara looks little different from his jurassic relatives.

  死抱着在海面上的峭壁，一只新西兰大蜥蜴看起来有点不同，从它的侏罗系的亲属。

• tuatara once ranged throughout new zealand before rats, cats, and stoats - introduced by human colonizers - wiped them out.

  据殖民者们介绍说，大蜥蜴以前遍布新西兰，直到老鼠、猫和白鼬把它们挤掉。