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dorylomorph

dorylomorph noun: a member of a taxonomic grouping of army ants and their relatives, comprising six subfamilies Leptanilloidinae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and the monogeneric subfamilies Aenictinae, Aenictogitinae, and genus Dorylus sensu stricto, now all placed in Dorylinae sensu lato.

Noun

dorylomorph (plural dorylomorphs)

  1. A member of a taxonomic grouping of army ants and their relatives, comprising six subfamilies Leptanilloidinae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and the monogeneric subfamilies Aenictinae, Aenictogitinae, and genus Dorylus sensu stricto, now all placed in Dorylinae sensu lato.
    • which represents another independent origin of eusociality in addition to honeybee and ants; and several additional ant species, notably the dorylomorph Cerapachys biroi which represents the second most early-branching ant species following the ponerine Harpegnathos saltator (Oxley et al.)2015 August 12, Xiaofan Zhou et al., “Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality”, in Genome Biology and Evolution, volume 7, →DOI
    Synonyms:
    doryline

Synonyms of dorylomorph

Forms of dorylomorph

pluraldorylomorphs

Questions about dorylomorph

What does dorylomorph mean?
Dorylomorph means a member of a taxonomic grouping of army ants and their relatives, comprising six subfamilies Leptanilloidinae, Cerapachyinae, Ecitoninae, and the monogeneric subfamilies Aenictinae, Aenictogitinae, and genus Dorylus sensu stricto, now all placed in Dorylinae sensu lato.
What part of speech is dorylomorph?
Dorylomorph is a noun.
What is the plural of dorylomorph?
The plural of dorylomorph is dorylomorphs.

Words near dorylomorph in the dictionary

  1. Dorylaeum
  2. dorylaim
  3. dorylaims
  4. doryline
  5. dorylines
  6. dorylomorph
  7. dorylomorphs
  8. doryman
  9. dorymen
  10. doryphore
  11. doryphores

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