stenogastrine
stenogastrine noun: any of the wasps of the subfamily Stenogastrinae.
Noun
stenogastrine (plural stenogastrines)
- Any of the wasps of the subfamily Stenogastrinae.
- Despite stenogastrines being recognized as sister to polistines and vespines (Carpenter 1982), the single origin of eusociality hypothesis dates to Carpenter (1988). As knowledge of stenogastrine ethology accumulated it became clear that eusociality was the ground plan of stenogastrines and...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 stenogastrine
| plural | stenogastrines |
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Origin of stenogastrine
Borrowed from translingual Stenogastrinae.
Questions about stenogastrine
- What does stenogastrine mean?
- Stenogastrine means any of the wasps of the subfamily Stenogastrinae.
- What part of speech is stenogastrine?
- Stenogastrine is a noun.
- What is the plural of stenogastrine?
- The plural of stenogastrine is stenogastrines.
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