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gregaric

gregaric adjective: of or pertaining to a grex.

Adjective

gregaric (comparative more gregaric, superlative most gregaric)

  1. Of or pertaining to a grex.
    • Within the Araschnia-clade, larval gregaric habits, host plants, and the conspicuously reddish2004 March 1, Z. Fric, M. Konvicka, J. Zrzavy, “Red & black or black & white? Phylogeny of the Araschnia butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) and evolution of seasonal polyphenism”, in Journal of...

Forms of gregaric

comparativemore gregaric
superlativemost gregaric

Origin of gregaric

From Latin greg(is) + -aric, from genitive of grex (“group”).

Questions about gregaric

What does gregaric mean?
Gregaric means of or pertaining to a grex.
What part of speech is gregaric?
Gregaric is an adjective.

Words near gregaric in the dictionary

  1. gregal
  2. gregale
  3. gregales
  4. gregarian
  5. gregarianism
  6. gregaric
  7. gregarine
  8. gregarines
  9. gregarious
  10. gregariously
  11. gregariousness

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