Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polistine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: polis-tine
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.

Example Sentences

"It has previously been argued that preimaginal differentiation of workers and queens is an underlying, unifying feature of polistines and vespines (Gadagkar 1991; Hunt 1991; O’Donnell 1998; Hunt 2006, 2007; Hunt et al. 2007). The results (fig. 2; supplementary figs. S1 and S2, Supplementary Material online) support this proposed framework of eusocial evolution, whereby two distinct developmental trajectories exist for both polistine and vespine female offspring during larval development (Hunt 2007): […]"

Etymology

Borrowed from translingual Polistinae.

Inflected Forms

polistines (plural)

Questions

What does polistine mean?: Any of the wasps of the subfamily Polistinae.
Where does polistine come from?: Borrowed from translingual Polistinae.

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