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aphelinid

aphelinid noun: any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.

Noun

aphelinid (plural aphelinids)

  1. Any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.
    • In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531

Forms of aphelinid

pluralaphelinids

Questions about aphelinid

What does aphelinid mean?
Aphelinid means any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.
What part of speech is aphelinid?
Aphelinid is a noun.
What is the plural of aphelinid?
The plural of aphelinid is aphelinids.

Words near aphelinid in the dictionary

  1. aphelenchs
  2. aphelia
  3. aphelial
  4. aphelian
  5. aphelias
  6. aphelinid
  7. aphelinids
  8. aphelinine
  9. aphelinines
  10. aphelion
  11. aphelions

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