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bivoltine

bivoltine adjective: having two broods or generations in a year.

Adjective

bivoltine (not comparable)

  1. Having two broods or generations in a year
    • Interestingly, a few oligoleges such as Calliopsis hesperia equina and C. helianthi are reportedly bivoltine (Rozen 1958).2006, Nickolas M. Waser, Jeff Ollerton, Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization

Noun

bivoltine (plural bivoltines)

  1. A bivoltine organism.

Forms of bivoltine

Adjective
alternative form (dated)bivoltin
Noun
pluralbivoltines

Origin of bivoltine

From French bivoltin. By surface analysis, bi- + -voltine.

Questions about bivoltine

What does bivoltine mean?
Bivoltine means having two broods or generations in a year.
What part of speech is bivoltine?
Bivoltine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near bivoltine in the dictionary

  1. bivoac
  2. bivocal
  3. bivocals
  4. Bivolari
  5. bivoltin
  6. bivoltine
  7. bivoltines
  8. bivoltinism
  9. Bivona
  10. Bivonas
  11. bivouac

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