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aphelinids

aphelinids is the plural of aphelinid.

Meaning of aphelinid

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

Questions about aphelinids

What is aphelinids the plural of?
Aphelinids is the plural of aphelinid.

Words near aphelinids in the dictionary

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

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