Word: aculeate
Translations: aculeate
Dictionary:
spanish
Translations:
aculeado, aculeata
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german
Translations:
aculeater, Aculeata, gespitzten
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french
Translations:
aculéates, aculée, aculeata
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italian
Translations:
Aculeati, aculeata
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portuguese
Translations:
aculeada, aculeado
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swedish
Translations:
GADDSTEKEL
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polish
Translations:
kolczasty
The meaning and "use of": aculeate
adjective
- (of an insect) having a sting. - Almost all adult aculeate wasps and bees drink nectar for their own nourishment and are therefore flower visitors and worthy of consideration as potential pollinators.
- sharply pointed; prickly. - The fruit of this plant are globose and aculeate .
- a stinging insect of a group that includes the bees, wasps, and ants. - Larval kleptoparasites of solitary aculeates are also found in the Bombyliidae and Chloropidae.