Meaning of "dealate" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD DEALATE

From de- + alate.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF DEALATE

dealate  [ˈdiːeɪˌleɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEALATE

Dealate is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES DEALATE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Alate

Alate refers to the winged form of a social insect. Alate females are typically those destined to become queens, whereas alate males are occasionally referred to as "drones". However, the existence of reproductives that do not have wings necessitates a term to distinguish the winged from the wingless reproductive forms. This is an example of polymorphism associated with eusociality.

Definition of dealate in the English dictionary

The definition of dealate in the dictionary is having lost their wings, esp by biting or rubbing them off after mating.

TRANSLATION OF DEALATE

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEALATE»

Discover the use of dealate in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to dealate and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Sex Allocation

This species is particularly useful because immigrant and native status correlates with whether females were wingless (native) or had been born with wings but had since shed them (termed dealate, or immigrant). Consistent with the ...

Stuart West, 2009

Contributions Celebrating Kumar Krishna: The Systematics & ...

Imago Q (dealate) (Figs 2A, 2B); Tad-321C, India: Gujarat: Tadkeshwar lignite mine, Cambay Formation (Paleo-Eocene), 21°21.400' N, 73°4.532' E, 17—22 January 2010 (BSIPL). Paratype. Imago 6 (dealate) (Fig. 2C); Tad-321C, same piece ...

Michael S. Engel, 2011

Taxonomy, Phylogeny, and Zoogeography of Beetles and Ants: A ...

MALAYSIA : TRENGGANU (whether the state or city is not specified), dealate female. 5 workers (T. Clay, 1974. BMNH. ANIC). Johore : Gnnong Pulai, 2 workers, rotting log, 500ft (RWT, 22. v. 1968). Sarawak : First Division : Semengo Forest ...

Philip Jackson Darlington, George E. Ball, 1985

Termites: Evolution, Sociality, Symbioses, Ecology

Dealate. The same, after shedding wings. Primary reproductives. Dealate reproductives that founded a new colony after a nuptial flight. Secondary reproductives. Insects that differentiated into reproductives in an established colony, whatever ...

Takuya Abe, David Edward Bignell, Masahiko Higashi, 2000

British Journal of Entomology and Natural History

It occurred at several sites near Porton. The first record was in July 1992, from Targett's Corner in Porton village (185 370) where it was still present in July 1999 . On 13. vi. 1993, an injured dealate female was seen there, being dragged by ...

Proceedings

(e) Parentage analysis Inspection of the genotypes of the female and male sexual progeny showed that a high fraction had one or more loci that lacked any alleles in common with the extant dealate queens within their colonies (table 4).

Zoologica

In the first place, laboratory tests indicate that a considerable amount of flying leads to loss of the wings within a few hours, hence our attention turns to occurrences involving dealate males. Table II shows that dealate males were discovered in ...

Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society

Wheeler, 1908, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 24: 400, dealate female. Acanthostichus (Ctenopyga) texanus Forel, Emery, 1911, in Wytsman, Genera Insectorum, fasc. 118, pp. 13-14, dealate female. M. R. Smith, 1947, Amer. Midl. Nat. 37: 529, pl.

Brooklyn Entomological Society, 1955

Sociobiology

The dealate percentages for both the 10 and 20 soldiers/ dish treatments were the same as those in the control. For the dead alate treatments, the dealate percentages were slightly higher than those in controls, but the differences were not ...

Cricket Behavior and Neurobiology

If they have stumps, the wings they lost were long, because only long- winged individuals dealate. Dealation occurs both in monomorphic long- winged species , such as Anurogryllus muticus and Loxoblemmus amor- iensis, and in wing ...

Franz Huber, Thomas Edwin Moore, Werner Loher, 1989