Definitions for aculeate

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aculeate a·cu·le·ate

Spelling: [uh-kyoo-lee-it, -eyt or uh- Aculeate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in aculeate (aaceeltu).

Definitions for aculeate

adjective

1. Biology. having or being any sharp-pointed structure.
2. having a slender ovipositor or sting, as the hymenopterous insects.
3. pointed; stinging.

Origin of aculeate

From the Latin word acūleātus, dating back to 1595-1605. See aculeus, -ate¹

Examples for aculeate

This is also the case in the aculeate Hymenoptera when the reproductive organs have been 735 destroyed by the parasite Stylops.

May be regarded as an aculeate variety of Archidiscus polythalamus.

The aculeate wasps of New Caledonia, with natural history notes.

This has been found to be the case in insects so widely different as Orthoptera and aculeate Hymenoptera.