Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

aphelinid

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: aphe-lin-id
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.

Example Sentences

"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)."

Inflected Forms

aphelinids (plural)

Questions

What does aphelinid mean?: Any member of the family Aphelinidae of parasitic wasps.

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