tardigrade

基本解释

The genome for a species of tardigrade was first sequenced last year.
科学家开始研究这种缓步类动物的不畏惧死亡超级强权背后的基因基础。
And if the experiment works on a virus, they hope to move on to something that is indisputably alive: a tardigrade.
如果在病毒上的实验能够成功，研究者们希望进一步对真正的活物进行实验，比如熊虫。
We had never heard of a Tardigrade, but supposedly it’s one of the most resilient microscopic swamp-dwelling invertebrates and the inspiration for this private residence.
我们从没听说过缓步类动物，但据说它是恢复力最强的栖息于沼泽的无脊椎微生物之一，而且是此私人住所的灵感来源。

And if the experiment works on a virus, they hope to move on to something that is indisputably alive: a tardigrade.
ECONOMIST: An old thought experiment may soon be realised
His group first looked to nature for inspiration, using studies of the biochemistry of organisms that survive without water: 500-year-old Chinese lotus seeds, the hardy resurrection plant of the Sonoran desert and the microscopic tardigrade creature.
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any minute aquatic segmented eight-legged invertebrate of the phylum Tardigrada, related to the arthropods, occurring in soil, ditches, etc (Popular name water bear)
of, relating to, or belonging to the Tardigrada