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Aculeate

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Adjective

1. aculeate, aculeated

having or resembling a stinger or barb

Example Sentences:
'aculeate insects such as bees and wasps'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Aculeate

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adjective
1. 
cutting; pointed
2. 
having prickles or spines, as a rose
3. 
having a sting, as bees, wasps, and ants

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Aculeate

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adjective
having an aculeus or aculei

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Aculeate

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adj.
1. Zoology Having a stinger, as a bee or wasp.
2. Botany Having sharp prickles.

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