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tanaostigmatid

tanaostigmatid noun: any member of the family Tanaostigmatidae of parasitic wasps.

Noun

tanaostigmatid (plural tanaostigmatids)

  1. Any member of the family Tanaostigmatidae of parasitic wasps.
    • Galls on tamboti branches are caused by the larvae of a wasp of the tanaostigmatid family, which bores into the wood to lay her eggs.1993, Braam Van Wyk, Bushveld Trees: Lifeblood of the Transvaal Lowveld, page 70
    • In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531

Forms of tanaostigmatid

pluraltanaostigmatids

Questions about tanaostigmatid

What does tanaostigmatid mean?
Tanaostigmatid means any member of the family Tanaostigmatidae of parasitic wasps.
What part of speech is tanaostigmatid?
Tanaostigmatid is a noun.
What is the plural of tanaostigmatid?
The plural of tanaostigmatid is tanaostigmatids.

Words near tanaostigmatid in the dictionary

  1. tanalized
  2. tanalizes
  3. tanalizing
  4. Tanana
  5. Tanana River
  6. tanaostigmatid
  7. tanaostigmatids
  8. Tanapox
  9. tanaproget
  10. Tanarupi
  11. tanas

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