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aculeate
[ uh-kyoo-lee-it, -eyt ]
adjective
- Biology. having or being any sharp-pointed structure.
- having a slender ovipositor or sting, as the hymenopterous insects.
- pointed; stinging.
aculeate
/ -ˌeɪt; əˈkjuːlɪɪt /
adjective
- cutting; pointed
- having prickles or spines, as a rose
- having a sting, as bees, wasps, and ants
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Other Words From
- non·a·cu·le·ate adjective
- non·a·cu·le·at·ed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aculeate1
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Example Sentences
May be regarded as an aculeate variety of Archidiscus polythalamus.
The aculeate wasps of New Caledonia, with natural history notes.
Ovicells aculeate, with strong widely set spines, pyriform depressed.
This is also the case in the Aculeate Hymenoptera when the reproductive organs have been 735 destroyed by the parasite Stylops.
This has been found to be the case in insects so widely different as Orthoptera and Aculeate Hymenoptera.
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