Meanings
adjectiveunivoltine (not comparable)
- not comparablebiologyHaving one brood or generation in a year
How does an oligolege respond if its pollen hosts fail to bloom? Most oligoleges have one generation per year (univoltine), so adult emergence can and must synchronize with host bloom (e.g., Cane and Payne 1993).
2006, Nickolas M. Waser, Jeff Ollerton, Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization
Synonyms & antonyms
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Origin
- Frenchunivoltin
- Englishunivoltine
From French univoltin. By surface analysis, uni- + -voltine.
More words from French
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Hungarian egynemzedékes
- egynemzedékeshaving one brood or generation in a year
Italian univoltino
- univoltinohaving one brood or generation in a year
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APA
univoltine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univoltine
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“univoltine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univoltine. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “univoltine,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/univoltine.
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