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zethines

zethines is the plural of zethine.

Meaning of zethine

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...

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Questions about zethines

What is zethines the plural of?
Zethines is the plural of zethine.

Words near zethines in the dictionary

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

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