aculeate

aculeate (comparative more aculeate, superlative most aculeate)

1. Having a sting; sharp like a prickle.
2. Having prickles or sharp points.
3. (entomology) Having a stinger; stinging.

aculeate (plural aculeates)

1. Any insect of the infraorder Aculeata, which have ovipositors modified into stingers.

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aculeate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “aculeate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Aculeata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

aculeate

1. feminine plural of aculeato

acūleāte

1. vocative masculine singular of acūleātus

• aculeate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• aculeate in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016