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haustellates

haustellates is the plural of haustellate.

Meaning of haustellate

Noun

haustellate (plural haustellates)

  1. A haustellate insect.
    • Bees form part of that section of insects called mandibulate insects, i.e., insects which eat with jaws, in contradistinction to the haustellates, or insects which suck up liquid food through a trunk .1853, John George Wood, Bees, page 19

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Questions about haustellates

What is haustellates the plural of?
Haustellates is the plural of haustellate.

Words near haustellates in the dictionary

  1. Haussmannizes
  2. Haussmannizing
  3. haustella
  4. haustellate
  5. haustellated
  6. haustellates
  7. haustellum
  8. haustement
  9. haustoria
  10. haustorial
  11. haustorially

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