allomotherとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From allo- +‎ mother.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈæləˌmʌðə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈæləˌmʌðɚ/

名詞

allomother (plural allomothers)

1. (zoology) A human or other creature that provides some maternal care for the young born of another.
   • 2000, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and how They Shape the Human Species, page 162:

     Within hours of birth, baby langurs are spirited away from their mothers. They spend up to 50 percent of daylight hours passed from allomother to allomother

   • 2009 March 3, Natalie Angier, “In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue”, in New York Times‎:

     Among the !Kung foragers of the Kalahari, babies are held by a father, grandmother, older sibling or some other allomother maybe 25 percent of the time.

同意語

• othermother

関連する語

• allomaternal

動詞

allomother (third-person singular simple present allomothers, present participle allomothering, simple past and past participle allomothered)

1. (transitive) To provide maternal care for another creature's young.