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vespids

vespids is the plural of vespid.

Meaning of vespid

Noun

vespid (plural vespids)

  1. Any social insect of the family Vespidae including wasps and hornets.
    • For both traits, the Assym.2 model favored reversals as more likely, especially when more solitary vespid taxa were included. This is because as more solitary vespids are included, the more observed instances of no gains.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...

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Questions about vespids

What is vespids the plural of?
Vespids is the plural of vespid.

Words near vespids in the dictionary

  1. vespetro
  2. vespiaries
  3. vespiary
  4. vespid
  5. vespidous
  6. vespids
  7. vespiform
  8. vespillo
  9. vespilloes
  10. vespine
  11. vespines

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