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melittid

melittid noun: any bee of the family Melittidae.

melittid: any bee of the family Melittidae
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Noun

melittid (plural melittids)

  1. Any bee of the family Melittidae.
    • Regarding the transport sites, apids, melittids, ctenoplectrids, and megachilids all show little variation whereas the other bee families display wide variation.1992, David W. Roubik, editor, Ecology and Natural History of Tropical Bees, page 45
    • In further support of the antiquity of this clade is the widely disjunct distribution of some of its basal members among the dasypodaine melittids, as indicated in Sections 26 and 68 and Michener (1981a).2000, Charles Duncan Michener, The Bees of the World, volume 1, page 95

Forms of melittid

pluralmelittids

Questions about melittid

What does melittid mean?
Melittid means any bee of the family Melittidae.
What part of speech is melittid?
Melittid is a noun.
What is the plural of melittid?
The plural of melittid is melittids.

Words near melittid in the dictionary

  1. Melitos
  2. melitose
  3. melitracen
  4. melitriose
  5. melitrioses
  6. melittid
  7. melittids
  8. melittin
  9. melittins
  10. melittological
  11. melittologist

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