Illustration: At a nature club table, a child studies one living rhinoceros beetle in a clear observation container. Several other beetles of the same kind occupy a larger ventilated habitat beside it, with bark and feeding jelly.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

個こ体たい

kotai

individual organism

Used chiefly for an individual animal or other organism. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. クズリは、同性どうせいの個体こたいから自分じぶんのテリトリーの境界きょうかいを守まもり、一生いっしょうのほとんどを単独たんどくで過すごす。

    The wolverine spends most of its life alone, defending the borders of its territory from individuals of the same sex.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 全ぜん個体こたいがクローンであるため、新あたらしい耐性たいせいを手てに入いれる能力のうりょくも低ひくい。

    Because all the individuals are clones, it has low ability to acquire greater tolerance.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 体色たいしょくは背中側せなかがわが黒くろく、腹側はらがわは白しろいが、野生やせい個体こたいには背中側せなかがわが青緑色あおみどりいろや灰褐色はいかっしょく、腹側はらがわが黄色きいろの個体こたいもいる。

    The body color is black on the dorsal side and white on the abdominal side, but the wild ones may have a dorsal side that’s bluish green or grayish brown and an abdominal side that’s yellow.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 個体

  • 個individual; counter for articlesOnコ・カ
  • 体body; substanceOnタイ・テイKunからだ・かたち

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