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dacine

dacine noun: any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.

Noun

dacine (plural dacines)

  1. Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.
    • Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White).2022 September 6 (last accessed), United States Department of Agriculture, “Archived copy”, in AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS, archived from the...

Forms of dacine

pluraldacines

Origin of dacine

Clipping of taxonomic name Dacinae.

Questions about dacine

What does dacine mean?
Dacine means any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.
What part of speech is dacine?
Dacine is a noun.
What is the plural of dacine?
The plural of dacine is dacines.

Words near dacine in the dictionary

  1. dachsies
  2. Dacia
  3. Dacian
  4. Dacianism
  5. Dacians
  6. dacine
  7. dacines
  8. dacinostat
  9. dacisteine
  10. dacite
  11. dacites

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