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vespine

/ˈvɛspaɪn/

vespine adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of wasps.

Adjective

vespine (comparative more vespine, superlative most vespine)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of wasps.
    • Ori braced himself, dropped with a cry when a ghost image of the wasp returned in air again momentarily varicose, and went, and came back once more, now nothing but a vespine insinuation, and was, finally, all gone.2004, China Miéville, Iron Council

Noun

vespine (plural vespines)

  1. Any wasp of the subfamily Vespinae.
    • It has previously been argued that preimaginal differentiation of workers and queens is an underlying, unifying feature of polistines and vespines (Gadagkar 1991; Hunt 1991; O’Donnell 1998; Hunt 2006, 2007; Hunt et al. 2007). The results (fig. 2; supplementary figs. S1 and S2, Supplementary...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...

vespine meaning in Tamil and Urdu

vespine in Tamil

தலையீடு விரும்பா நங்கை

vespine in Urdu

بھڑ جیسا

Forms of vespine

Adjective
comparativemore vespine
superlativemost vespine
Noun
pluralvespines

Origin of vespine

From Latin vespa + -ine.

Questions about vespine

What does vespine mean?
Vespine means of, relating to, or characteristic of wasps.
What is vespine in Tamil?
Vespine in Tamil is தலையீடு விரும்பா நங்கை. See Vespine meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vespine?
Vespine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce vespine?
Vespine is pronounced /ˈvɛspaɪn/.

Words near vespine in the dictionary

  1. vespidous
  2. vespids
  3. vespiform
  4. vespillo
  5. vespilloes
  6. vespine
  7. vespines
  8. vespoid
  9. Vessabhū
  10. vessail
  11. vessails

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