Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Dutch term or phrase:
afsplitsing
English translation:
subspecies
Added to glossary by
Dave Calderhead
Jul 7, 2005 08:45
18 yrs ago
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Dutch term
afsplitsing
Dutch to English
Science
Zoology
Simple enough word but I'm not sure what the correct term is in the context. Text is an interview with an arachnologist about his work on the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean.
Een aantal spinnensoorten paste zich uitermate goed aan de vulkanische omgeving op de Comoren aan. Enkele voorbeelden om te besluiten?
Op Groot-Comoren, dat vulkanisch nog heel actief is, leeft bijvoorbeeld een spin die de grijze kleur aangenomen heeft van de korstmossen die op de pas gestolde lava groeien. De bronsoort is afkomstig uit Madagascar en deze soort die eigen is aan Groot-Comoren is er een **afsplitsing** van.
Could it be "offshoot"? I've come across the term "filiation" in Huitenga's agricultural dictionary but it sounds too much like technical jargon for this job (museum's yearbook intended for the public).
Een aantal spinnensoorten paste zich uitermate goed aan de vulkanische omgeving op de Comoren aan. Enkele voorbeelden om te besluiten?
Op Groot-Comoren, dat vulkanisch nog heel actief is, leeft bijvoorbeeld een spin die de grijze kleur aangenomen heeft van de korstmossen die op de pas gestolde lava groeien. De bronsoort is afkomstig uit Madagascar en deze soort die eigen is aan Groot-Comoren is er een **afsplitsing** van.
Could it be "offshoot"? I've come across the term "filiation" in Huitenga's agricultural dictionary but it sounds too much like technical jargon for this job (museum's yearbook intended for the public).
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +3 | subspecies |
Dave Calderhead
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| 3 +1 | (separate) branch |
EgonWegh
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| 3 | offshoot |
writeaway
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Proposed translations
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subspecies
If it is not too technical a word for your public.
Oxford dictionary:A morphologically distinct subdivision of a species, esp. one geographically or ecologically (though not usually genetically) isolated from other such subdivisions
Oxford dictionary:A morphologically distinct subdivision of a species, esp. one geographically or ecologically (though not usually genetically) isolated from other such subdivisions
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Comment: "This lot of creepy crawlies certainly seems to be geographically isolated from the "bronsoort" so this gets my vote. Thanks to everyone."
+1
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(separate) branch
Isn't that what they call it? Separate branches in the animal kingdom?
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-07-07 08:52:31 GMT)
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\"All trilobites share certain unique features (like the calcite mineralogy of the exoskselton and calcified eye) to indicate that they are a separate branch of Arthropoda\"
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Note added at 7 mins (2005-07-07 08:52:31 GMT)
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\"All trilobites share certain unique features (like the calcite mineralogy of the exoskselton and calcified eye) to indicate that they are a separate branch of Arthropoda\"
Peer comment(s):
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writeaway
: http://www.austmus.gov.au/palaeontology/research/trilobites0... - maybe possible but you should provide more conclusive refs and give the url of your refs
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The url is the one you cited above - but it was not meant to be an exact definition, but a kind of illustration of the way in which one might use the phrase 'separate branch'
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offshoot
agree with you. am not 100% it's the only term but it is certainly used in the context.
EvC Forum - Raw Message Text
... evolution. It is not a refutation of evolution for the parent species to remain unchanged while the offshoot of the species does change. ...
www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/ rawmsgtxt.cgi?action=viewraw&forum=5&thread=476&msg=75
Atlantean Dream
... There is another offshoot of the species basically called the red Tuyeb. ... This venom causes massive hemorrhaging, much like a spider-bite, causing its prey to ...
www.geocities.com/LIKE_A_STAR8800/Fic/FicFldGd.HTM - 20k - S
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon "There is a remarkably close ...
The development of an offshoot of the species characterized by densely bearded
... It supports an uncannily small and tidy spider-web whose geodesic strands ...
www.anakata.hack.se/files/Cryptonomicon.txt - 513k -
EvC Forum - Raw Message Text
... evolution. It is not a refutation of evolution for the parent species to remain unchanged while the offshoot of the species does change. ...
www.evcforum.net/cgi-bin/ rawmsgtxt.cgi?action=viewraw&forum=5&thread=476&msg=75
Atlantean Dream
... There is another offshoot of the species basically called the red Tuyeb. ... This venom causes massive hemorrhaging, much like a spider-bite, causing its prey to ...
www.geocities.com/LIKE_A_STAR8800/Fic/FicFldGd.HTM - 20k - S
Neal Stephenson - Cryptonomicon "There is a remarkably close ...
The development of an offshoot of the species characterized by densely bearded
... It supports an uncannily small and tidy spider-web whose geodesic strands ...
www.anakata.hack.se/files/Cryptonomicon.txt - 513k -
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