aphelinid

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noun

Any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.

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Meanings

nounaphelinid (plural aphelinids)

plural aphelinids

  1. biologyAny member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.

    In most chalcidoids, the mesopleura have a groove for the femora, but encyrtids lack this groove (as do the signiphorids, tanaostigmatids, some aphelinids, and some eupelmids).

    2005, Norman F. Johnson, Borror and DeLong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, page 531

Translations

Portuguese afelinídeo
  • afelinídeoany member of the Aphelinidae

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

delphinia
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Chicago

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