mouthbrooder
Syllables: mouth·brood·er/ˈmaʊθbɹuːdə/US/ˈmaʊθˌbɹudɚ/
mouthbrooder noun: any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
Noun
mouthbrooder (plural mouthbrooders)
- Any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
- However, [Franz] Steindachner (1875), in describing Arius planiceps, a catfish from Panama, found that at the breeding season the innermost edges of the ventral fins of the female are developed so as to form a kind of pocket. He conjectured that the eggs are extruded into this, fertilized by the...1918, E. W. Gudger, “Oral Gestation in the Gaff-Topsail Catfish, Felichthys felis”, in Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, volume XII, number III...
- Mozambique mouthbrooders are native to coastal streams of southeast Africa, especially the Zambesi River, Mozambique.1976, Peter B. Moyle, “Cichlid Family, Cichlidae”, in Inland Fishes of California, Berkeley; Los Angeles, Calif.; London: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 330
- Synonyms:
- mouthbreeder
mouthbrooder meaning in Tamil
mouthbrooder in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
Examples of mouthbrooder in a sentence
- This seems, therefore, to be an intermediate stage between the biparental family of substrate-spawners and the uniparental family of mouthbrooders [...].1982, J-Cl. Philippart, J-Cl. Ruwet, “Ecology and Distribution of Tilapias”, in R[oger] S. V. Pullin, R[osemary] H[elen] Lowe-McConnell...
- They are mouthbrooders, in that the eggs are held, usually in the mouth of the male, until hatching; this is one of the only marine fish families to reproduce in this way.2000, Yvonne Sadovy, Andrew S. Cornish, “Cardinalfishes: Apogonidae”, in Reef Fishes of Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press...
Synonyms of mouthbrooder
Forms of mouthbrooder
| plural | mouthbrooders |
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Origin of mouthbrooder
From mouth + brooder.
Words formed from mouthbrooder
- African mouthbrooder
- blackchin mouthbrooder
- blue Victoria mouthbrooder
- dwarf Victoria mouthbrooder
- Egyptian mouthbrooder
- Fuelleborn's mouthbrooder
- Guenther's mouthbrooder
- Katavi mouthbrooder
- Lake Turkana mouthbrooder
- Mozambique mouthbrooder
- Nile mouthbrooder
- Paraguay mouthbrooder
- southern mouthbrooder
Questions about mouthbrooder
- What does mouthbrooder mean?
- Mouthbrooder means any animal that cares for its offspring, either eggs or juveniles, by holding them in its mouth for extended periods of time.
- What is mouthbrooder in Tamil?
- Mouthbrooder in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Mouthbrooder meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use mouthbrooder in a sentence?
- This seems, therefore, to be an intermediate stage between the biparental family of substrate-spawners and the uniparental family of mouthbrooders [...].
- What part of speech is mouthbrooder?
- Mouthbrooder is a noun.
- How do you pronounce mouthbrooder?
- Mouthbrooder is pronounced /ˈmaʊθbɹuːdə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of mouthbrooder?
- The plural of mouthbrooder is mouthbrooders.
Words near mouthbrooder in the dictionary
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