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zethine

zethine noun: any member of the family Zethinae of potter wasps.

Noun

zethine (plural zethines)

  1. Any member of the family Zethinae of potter wasps.
    • Only Richards (1971), who speculated stenogastrines evolved from a Eumenes-like solitary ancestor, Spradbery (1975), who suggested evolution from an early vespoid ancestor, and Van der Vecht (1977), who argued they were closely related to zethines, had challenged the affinity of stenogastrines to...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...

Adjective

zethine (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the family Zethinae of potter wasps.
    • Deuterodiscoelius Dalla Torre, 1904, is a genus of zethine potter wasps comprising six extant species, all exclusive to the Australian Region.2024, Rogério Botion Lopes, The unnatural grouping of Deuterodiscoelius Dalla Torre, 1904, and Pachycoelius Giordani Soika, 1969 (Hymenoptera, Vespidae), and a remarkable new species, page 1

Forms of zethine

pluralzethines

Origin of zethine

Borrowed from taxonomic name Zethinae.

Questions about zethine

What does zethine mean?
Zethine means any member of the family Zethinae of potter wasps.
What part of speech is zethine?
Zethine can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of zethine?
The plural of zethine is zethines.

Words near zethine in the dictionary

  1. zeteticism
  2. zetetick
  3. zetetics
  4. zetetist
  5. zetetists
  6. zethine
  7. zethines
  8. zethrene
  9. zethrenes
  10. Zethus
  11. zetidoline

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