第一 dì yī first / number one / primary syn 组织 組織 zǔ zhī to organize / organization / (biology) tissue / (textiles) weave / CL:個|个[ge4] syn 元 yuán currency unit (esp. Chinese yuan) / (bound form) first / original / primary / (bound form) basic / fundamental / (bound form) constituent / part / (prefix) meta- / (math.) argument / variable / era (of a reign) / (Tw) (geology) eon syn 原 yuán former / original / primary / raw / level / cause / source syn 主要 zhǔ yào main / principal / major / primary syn 变态 變態 biàn tài to metamorphose (biology) / abnormal / perverted / hentai / (slang) pervert 最初 zuì chū first / primary / initial / original / at first / initially / originally syn 细胞 細胞 xì bāo cell (biology) 培养 培養 péi yǎng to cultivate / to breed / to foster / to nurture / to educate / to groom (for a position) / education / fostering / culture (biology) syn 小学 小學 xiǎo xué elementary school / primary school syn 祖先 zǔ xiān ancestors / forebears / (biology) ancestral species / ancient species from which present-day species evolved syn 寄生虫 寄生蟲 jì shēng chóng parasite (biology) / (fig.) freeloader syn 变种 變種 biàn zhǒng (biology) a mutation / a variety / a variant / a variety 初级 初級 chū jí junior / primary syn 生物学 生物學 shēng wù xué biology 宿主 sù zhǔ (biology) host syn 小学生 小學生 xiǎo xué shēng primary school student / schoolchild / CL:個|个[ge4],名[ming2] / (fig.) beginner 新陈代谢 新陳代謝 xīn chén dài xiè metabolism (biology) / the new replaces the old (idiom) 休眠 xiū mián (biology) dormant / (of a volcano) dormant / (computing) to hibernate syn 机体 機體 jī tǐ organism (biology) / airframe (aeronautics) syn 初选 初選 chū xuǎn primary election 预选 預選 yù xuǎn preselection / short-listing / primary election 原生 yuán shēng original / primary / native / indigenous / proto- / stock (firmware) 方向性 fāng xiàng xìng directionality (molecular biology) 主从 主從 zhǔ cóng master-slave (computing) / client-server (computing) / primary and secondary syn 分子生物学 分子生物學 fēn zǐ shēng wù xué molecular biology 国语 國語 guó yǔ Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC syn 原色 yuán sè primary color syn 凝集 níng jí to concentrate / to gather / (biology) to agglutinate syn 基色 primary colour syn 幼儿教育 幼兒教育 pre-primary education 同源 tóng yuán homology (biology) / a common origin 正房 zhèng fáng central building (in a traditional house) / primary wife syn 形态学 形態學 xíng tài xué morphology (in biology or linguistics) 生产者 生產者 shēng chǎn zhě producer (of goods, commodities or farm produce etc) / manufacturer / (biology) autotroph syn 初等教育 chū děng jiào yù primary education / junior school education 主管部门 主管部門 zhǔ guǎn bù mén office of primary interest 主要原因 zhǔ yào yuán yīn main reason / primary cause 浅析 淺析 qiǎn xī primary, elementary or coarse analysis syn 主次 zhǔ cì the important and the less important / primary and secondary syn 第一产业 第一產業 dì yī chǎn yè primary sector of industry 细胞生物学 細胞生物學 xì bāo shēng wù xué cell biology 正室 zhèng shì primary wife (in contrast to concubine) / legal wife 合子 hé zǐ zygote (biology) 少年先锋队 少年先鋒隊 shào nián xiān fēng duì Young Pioneers of China (primary school league, a preparation for Communist Youth League) / abbr. to 少先隊|少先队 株 zhū tree trunk / stump (tree root) / a plant / classifier for trees or plants / strain (biology) / to involve others (in shady business) syn 体腔 體腔 tǐ qiāng body cavity / coelom (biology) 腋 yè armpit / (biology) axilla / (botany) axil / Taiwan pr. [yi4] syn 六书 六書 liù shū Six Methods of forming Chinese characters, according to Han dictionary Shuowen 說文|说文 - namely, two primary methods: 象形 (pictogram), 指事 (ideogram), two compound methods: 會意|会意 (combined ideogram), 形聲|形声 (ideogram plus phonetic), and two transfer methods: 假借 (loan), 轉注|转注 (transfer) 植物界 zhí wù jiè Kingdom Plantae (biology) 二倍体 二倍體 èr bèi tǐ diploid (in cell biology) 悬雍垂 懸雍垂 xuán yōng chuí uvula (biology) syn 返祖现象 返祖現象 fǎn zǔ xiàn xiàng atavism (biology) 骨针 骨針 gǔ zhēn spicule (in biology) / bone needle (in archaeology) 民以食为天 民以食為天 mín yǐ shí wéi tiān Food is the God of the people. (idiom) / People view food as the primary need. / Food first, ethical niceties second syn 大老婆 dà lǎo pó primary wife syn 同化作用 tóng huà zuò yòng assimilation / anabolism (biology) / constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc) 异化作用 異化作用 yì huà zuò yòng catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation 一次能源 yī cì néng yuán primary energy 初级教育和两性平等问题第3工作队 初級教育和兩性平等問題第3工作隊 Millennium Project Task Force 3 on Primary Education and Gender Equality / Task Force 3 on Primary Education and Gender Equality 初级裂变 初級裂變 chū jí liè biàn fission primary / fission trigger / thermonuclear weapon primary 裂变触发器 裂變觸發器 fission primary / fission trigger / thermonuclear weapon primary 初级预防 初級預防 chū jí yù fáng primary prevention / primary prophylaxis 原始数据用户站 原始數據用戶站 Primary Data Users Station / primary data receiving station 亚门 亞門 yà mén (biology) subphylum (in zoological taxonomy) / subdivision (in the taxonomy of plants or fungi) 碱基对 鹼基對 jiǎn jī duì base pair (molecular biology) 两生类 兩生類 liǎng shēng lèi (biology) class Amphibia 共栖 共棲 gòng qī (old) (biology) to have a commensal relationship with (another organism) 分子化合物 fēn zǐ huà hé wù molecular biology 分解代谢 分解代謝 fēn jiě dài xiè catabolism (biology) / metabolic breaking down and waste disposal / dissimilation 前咽 qián yān prepharynx (biology) 千碱基对 千鹼基對 qiān jiǎn jī duì kilobase pair (molecular biology) 卵模 luǎn mó ootype (site of egg composition in flatworm biology) 卵母细胞 卵母細胞 luǎn mǔ xì bāo (biology) oocyte / ovocyte 卵黄腺 卵黃腺 luǎn huáng xiàn vitelline glands / vitellaria (in biology) 反转录 反轉錄 fǎn zhuǎn lù (molecular biology) reverse transcription 合成代谢 合成代謝 hé chéng dài xiè anabolism (biology) / constructive metabolism (using energy to make proteins etc) / assimilation 圆口纲脊椎动物 圓口綱脊椎動物 yuán kǒu gāng jǐ zhuī dòng wù cyclostome (marine biology) 核球 hé qiú core / pellet / central bulge / caryosphere (biology) 球虫 球蟲 qiú chóng coccidia (biology) 发育生物学 發育生物學 fā yù shēng wù xué developmental biology 石竹目 shí zhú mù Class Magnoliopsida (biology) 丝盘虫 絲盤蟲 sī pán chóng Trichoplax adhaerens (biology) 良种繁育 良種繁育 liáng zhǒng fán yù stock breeding (biology) 间充 間充 jiān chōng mesenchymal (tissue, in cell biology) 间充质干细胞 間充質幹細胞 jiān chōng zhì gàn xì bāo mesenchymal stem cell MSC (in cell biology) 颔下腺 頷下腺 hàn xià xiàn submaxillary glands (biology) 髓过氧化物酶 髓過氧化物酶 suǐ guò yǎng huà wù méi myeloperoxidase (aka MPO) (molecular biology) 高尔基复合体 高爾基複合體 gāo ěr jī fù hé tǐ Golgi complex (in cell biology) 朊毒体 朊毒體 ruǎn dú tǐ prion (molecular biology) 自养生物 自養生物 zì yǎng shēng wù (biology) autotroph 欧洲分子生物学实验室 歐洲分子生物學實驗室 European Molecular Biology Laboratory 体壁 體壁 tǐ bì integument (biology) 空间生物学和空间医学联合工作组 Joint Working Group on Space Biology and Medicine 胚泡 pēi pào (biology) blastocyst 欧洲细胞生物学组织 歐洲細胞生物學組織 ōu zhōu xì bāo shēng wù xué zǔ zhī European Cell Biology Organization 世界核医学和生物学联合会 世界核醫學和生物學聯合會 World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology 欧洲分子生物学组织 European Molecular Biology Organization 病媒生物学和病媒防治司 Division of Vector Biology and Control 