Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dacine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: dacine
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

1

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.

Example Sentences

"Objective 3 included the incorporation of several thousand additional specimens into the web-accessible, Afrotropical tephritid database (M. De Meyer and I. White) and the revision of Afrotropical dacines (White)."

Etymology

Clipping of taxonomic name Dacinae.

Inflected Forms

dacines (plural)

Questions

What does dacine mean?: Any fruit fly of the tephritid subfamily Dacinae.
Where does dacine come from?: Clipping of taxonomic name Dacinae.

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