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儒琴今日英语单词 Word of the Day
timberline
noun [ S ]/ˈtɪm.bɚ.laɪn/
→ the treeline: (on a mountain) the line or altitude above which no trees grow. 林木线（林木能够生长的海拔上限或最高纬度）
Most all of Montana and much of the country are home to black bear, with grizzly bear roaming a handful of western states as well. Both of these bear species can be found in low elevation farmland or atop a mountain peak above timberline. So wherever you may roam, it’s good practice to know bear identification, and safety.
ungulate
noun / ˈʌŋɡjʊleɪt /
A hoofed mammal, such as a horse, pig, deer, buffalo, or antelope, belonging to the former order Ungulata, now divided into several orders including Artiodactyla and Perissodactyla.
有蹄哺乳动物，如马、猪、鹿、水牛或羚羊
Let me ask you, have you ever just spent a couple of days with a herd of ungulates? Living like one of them, drinking their milk, sleeping on the desert floor, under the stars? It teaches you something. … I want emails from Lonely Planet with travel and product information, promotions, advertisements, third-party offers, and surveys. I can .. (Lonely Planet)
coniferous
adj 针叶植物的 [kəˈnɪfərəs]
The pine and fir are coniferous trees.
松树和枞树都是结球果的植物。
Coniferous forest, vegetation composed primarily of cone -bearing needle-leaved or scale-leaved evergreen trees, found in areas that have long winters and moderate to high annual precipitation. The northern Eurasian coniferous forest is called the taiga, or the boreal forest. –britannica
montane
[ˈmɑːnteɪn] adjective
1) of or inhabiting mountainous regions
山区的或居住在山区的
2) of or designating a cool, moist ecological zone usually located near the timberline and usually dominated by evergreen trees
属于或指定一个冷、潮湿的生态区，通常位于林线附近，通常以常绿乔木为主
At their highest altitudinal limits, montane forests are covered by moss-draped bushes and epiphytes (orchids, ferns, moss, lichen, and liverworts). In general, the higher the altitude, the lower the canopy height.
subalpine
[ˌsəbˈalpīn] ADJECTIVE
of or situated on the higher slopes of mountains just below the timberline.
If you are in an area with a good number of large subalpine firs, you can be confident that you are somewhere between about 9,500 and 11,000 feet, in the highest of the true forest zones, traditional home of Boreal Owl, Three-toed Woodpecker, Hammond’s Flycatcher, Gray Jay, and Pine Grosbeak. … bear, and elk. The Canada lynx has recently …
carrion
noun [ U ]/ˈker.i.ən/
dead or decaying flesh
腐尸；腐肉
Most Black Bears hibernate for up to seven months, and do not eat, drink, urinate, or exercise the entire time. In warmer climates further south, some bears do not hibernate. … Also meadows, roadsides, subalpine ridges. Food mainly fruit, nuts, and vegetation, also insects. They eat some meat usually as carrion, but are not active predators …
hybridize / hybridization
verb & noun [ U ]
biology specialized (UK usually hybridisation)/ˌhaɪ.brə.dəˈzeɪ.ʃən/
the process of producing a plant or animal from two different types of plant or animal
（动物或植物的）杂交过程
Aquilegia species hybridize and are, in the words of the Flora of North America, “difficult to define adequately. Some of the variability is because of introgressive hybridization. Even distantly related species of Columbine are often freely interfertile, and many cases of natural hybridization and introgression are known from North America.”.
osprey
noun [ C ]/ˈɑː.spri/
a large bird of prey that eats fish
鹗，鱼鹰
The osprey is a real crowd-pleaser, plunging from on high into lakes and ponds to catch fish. Since fish are slippery, osprey talons are well adapted to hang on to the catch: their feet have special barbed pads on their soles for grip, and ospreys can reverse their outer toe so that two toes point forward and two backward for the perfect grappling hook.
inoculate
verb [ T ] /ɪˈnɑː.kjə.leɪt/
to give a weak form of a disease to a person or animal, usually by injection, as a protection against that disease
给…接种，给…作预防注射
My children have been inoculated against polio. 我的孩子都打了小儿麻痹预防针 （Cambridge）
Fed slashes interest rates to inoculate economy from coronavirus.The Federal Reserve on Tuesday lowered its benchmark interest rate by a half-point, the largest cut since 2008, in a move to offset the impact of the coronavirus on the U.S. economy. –CBS March 3, 2020
