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polistine

polistine noun: any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.

Noun

polistine (plural polistines)

  1. Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
    • It has previously been argued that preimaginal differentiation of workers and queens is an underlying, unifying feature of polistines and vespines (Gadagkar 1991; Hunt 1991; O’Donnell 1998; Hunt 2006, 2007; Hunt et al. 2007). The results (fig. 2; supplementary figs. S1 and S2, Supplementary...2018, Patrick K Piekarski et al., “Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)”, in Molecular Biology and Evolution, archived from the original on 27...

Forms of polistine

pluralpolistines

Origin of polistine

Borrowed from translingual Polistinae.

Questions about polistine

What does polistine mean?
Polistine means any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
What part of speech is polistine?
Polistine is a noun.
What is the plural of polistine?
The plural of polistine is polistines.

Words near polistine in the dictionary

  1. polisomy
  2. polissoir
  3. polissoirs
  4. polisson
  5. Polister
  6. polistine
  7. polistines
  8. polit.
  9. politainer
  10. politainers
  11. Politano

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