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univoltine

univoltine adjective: having one brood or generation in a year.

Adjective

univoltine (not comparable)

  1. Having one brood or generation in a year
    • How does an oligolege respond if its pollen hosts fail to bloom? Most oligoleges have one generation per year (univoltine), so adult emergence can and must synchronize with host bloom (e.g., Cane and Payne 1993).2006, Nickolas M. Waser, Jeff Ollerton, Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization

Noun

univoltine (plural univoltines)

  1. A univoltine organism.

Forms of univoltine

pluralunivoltines

Origin of univoltine

From French univoltin. By surface analysis, uni- + -voltine.

Questions about univoltine

What does univoltine mean?
Univoltine means having one brood or generation in a year.
What part of speech is univoltine?
Univoltine can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near univoltine in the dictionary

  1. univocation
  2. univocities
  3. univocity
  4. univocous
  5. univoltin
  6. univoltine
  7. univoltines
  8. univoltinism
  9. univorous
  10. univs
  11. univs.

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