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dacines

dacines is the plural of dacine.

Meaning of dacine

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...

Questions about dacines

What is dacines the plural of?
Dacines is the plural of dacine.

Words near dacines in the dictionary

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

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