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vespines

vespines is the plural of vespine.

Meaning of vespine

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...

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Questions about vespines

What is vespines the plural of?
Vespines is the plural of vespine.

Words near vespines in the dictionary

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

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