aculeate
Meaning of aculeate
- (of an insect) having a sting.
- sharply pointed; prickly.
noun
a stinging insect of a group that includes the bees, wasps, and ants.
mid 17th century: from Latin aculeatus, from aculeus ‘a sting’, diminutive of acus ‘needle’.
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Hyphenation of aculeate
ac-uleate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- aculeate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
aculeate synonyms
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