noyau
English
Etymology
Noun
noyau (plural noyaus)
- A French liqueur made at Poissy in north central France from brandy and flavoured with almonds and the pits of apricots since the early nineteenth century.
- (ethology) A social structure where individual animals live alone, but each male's territory overlaps with those of several females.
- 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, "Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own" in LIFE, page 58:
- Borders are violated by hungering males and famished females, and the ordered animosities of the noyau give way to a saturnalia of sexual adventure.
- 1999, Ronald M. Nowak, Walker's Primates of the World, JHU Press →ISBN, page 27
- The orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) also exhibits the noyau system and appears to be the only diurnal primate with a largely solitary lifestyle.
- 2000, Sergio M. Pellis & Andrew N. Iwaniuk, "Adult-Adult Play in Primates: Comparative Analyses of Its Origin, Distribution and Evolution", Ethology 106, page 1089:
- This "noyau" pattern is found among various nocturnal strepsirrhines.
- 1966 August 26, Richard Ardrey, "Strongest Bond of All - The Space We Own" in LIFE, page 58:
References
French
Etymology
From Late Latin nucālis, from Latin nux.
Pronunciation
Noun
noyau m (plural noyaux)
- stone (of a fruit)
- group (of artists etc.); cell (of terrorists etc.)
- (geology) core
- (biology, physics) nucleus
- (computing) kernel
- (phonetics, phonology) nucleus of a syllable
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “noyau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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