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polylecty

polylecty noun: the condition of being polylectic.

Noun

polylecty (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being polylectic.
    • The two most basal bee families, Dasypodaidae and Mellitidae, are predominantly composed of pollen specialists, indicating that oligolecty might be the ancestral state in bees[…]. In the western Palaearctic anthidiine bees, several transitions from oligolecty to polylecty were found, but none from...2020, R. G. Vastrad, “Specialized Bees Fail to Develop on Non-host Pollen: Do Plants Chemically Protect Their Pollen?”, in A Study of Floral Specialization in Solitary Bees, Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu...

Origin of polylecty

Probably from polylectic + -y.

Questions about polylecty

What does polylecty mean?
Polylecty means the condition of being polylectic.
What part of speech is polylecty?
Polylecty is a noun.

Words near polylecty in the dictionary

  1. polylactosamines
  2. polylaminated
  3. polylateral
  4. polylectal
  5. polylectic
  6. polylecty
  7. polylege
  8. polyleges
  9. polylemma
  10. polylemmas
  11. polyless

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