hibernaculumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈnæk.jə.ləm/
• ハイフネーション: hi‧ber‧nac‧u‧lum

名詞

hibernaculum (複数形 hibernacula)

1. (zoology) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.

2. (botany) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.

関連する語

• hibernacle

参考

• turion

Latin

語源

From hībernō (“spend the winter”) +‎ -culum.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiː.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [hiːbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.berˈna.ku.lum/, [iberˈnäːkulum]

名詞

hībernāculum n (genitive hībernāculī); second declension

1. winter quarters; a winter residence
2. (in the plural) winter encampment

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

関連する語

• hībernālis
• hībernō
• hībernum
• hībernus

派生した語