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Meaning of "sternotribe" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STERNOTRIBE

sternotribe  [ˈstɜːnəˌtraɪb] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STERNOTRIBE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Sternotribe is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STERNOTRIBE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of sternotribe in the English dictionary

The definition of sternotribe in the dictionary is having contact with the sternum of an insect, meaning that a flower is prepared for cross-fertilisation by positioning the stamen and the style so that it will touch an insect's sternum.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STERNOTRIBE


ascribe
əˈskraɪb
bribe
braɪb
circumscribe
ˌsɜːkəmˈskraɪb
describe
dɪˈskraɪb
diatribe
ˈdaɪəˌtraɪb
escribe
ɪˈskraɪb
inscribe
ɪnˈskraɪb
outbribe
ˌaʊtˈbraɪb
oversubscribe
ˌəʊvəsəbˈskraɪb
paedotribe
ˈpiːdəʊˌtraɪb
prescribe
prɪˈskraɪb
proscribe
prəʊˈskraɪb
redescribe
ˌriːdɪˈskraɪb
scribe
skraɪb
subscribe
səbˈskraɪb
subtribe
ˈsʌbˌtraɪb
superscribe
ˌsuːpəˈskraɪb
transcribe
trænˈskraɪb
tribe
traɪb
unsubscribe
ˌʌnsəbˈskraɪb

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STERNOTRIBE

sternfast
sternforemost
sternite
sternitic
sternly
sternmost
sternness
Sterno
Sterno can
sternocostal
sternport
sternpost
sternson
sternum
sternutation
sternutative
sternutator
sternutatories
sternutatory
sternward

WORDS THAT END LIKE STERNOTRIBE

ant tribe
caribe
conscribe
gibe
imbibe
jibe
kibe
misdescribe
mistranscribe
Namibe
overprescribe
ribibe
vibe

Synonyms and antonyms of sternotribe in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «sternotribe» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STERNOTRIBE

Find out the translation of sternotribe to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of sternotribe from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «sternotribe» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

sternotribe
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sternotribe
570 millions of speakers

English

sternotribe
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

sternotribe
380 millions of speakers
ar

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sternotribe
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

sternotribe
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sternotribe
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

sternotribe
260 millions of speakers

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sternotribe
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sternotribe
190 millions of speakers

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sternotribe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

sternotribe
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

sternotribe
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sternotribe
85 millions of speakers
vi

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sternotribe
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

sternotribe
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्टर्नोट्रॉब
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sternotribe
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sternotribe
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

sternotribe
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

sternotribe
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sternotribe
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

sternotribe
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sternotribe
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

sternotribe
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

sternotribe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of sternotribe

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STERNOTRIBE»

The term «sternotribe» is used very little and occupies the 177.299 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about sternotribe

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERNOTRIBE»

Discover the use of sternotribe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to sternotribe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Botanical Gazette
I assume that the flowers have become sternotribe from the fact that bees have been in the habit of landing upon the stamens and style. While the hawk moths do not tend to produce irregular flowers, it does not follow that their influence is to  ...
John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, 1898
2
The collected works of Sir Humphry Davy ...: Discourses ...
I assume that the flowers have become sternotribe from the fact that bees have been in the habit of landing upon the stamens and style. While the hawk moths do not tend to produce irregular flowers, it does not follow that their influence is to  ...
John Merle Coulter, Sir Humphry Davy, John Davy, 1898
3
The Botanical Gazette
If the above observations indicate the conditions which _ have given rise to sternotribe flowers, irregular polypetalous flowers would be expected to be sternotribe, and this is the rule with them, as far as I know. Examples are: Delphinium ...
‎1888
4
The Scrophulariaceae of Eastern Temperate North America
Illustrations are shown between flowers that are nototribe, placing the pollen on the insect's back, and sternotribe, placing it on her thorax. In entering the flowers of Gratiola neglecta (G. virginiana) and Gerardia purpurea, the bee turns over, ...
Francis Whittier Pennell, 1935
5
A Dictionary of the Flowering Plants and Ferns
Steriphoma Spreng. Capparidaceae (II). 3 Trinidad to Peru. Steria L. = Hydrolea L. (Hydrophyll.). Sternbergia Waldst et Kit. Amaryllidaceae (1). 5 E. Medit. Sternotribe (fl.), dusting pollen on under side of visitor. Sterrhimn (CI.), a moor formation.
John Christopher Willis, Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw, 1973
6
Bioscientific Terminology: Words from Latin and Greek Stems
... crushing instrument osteotribe — a bone rasp splanchnotribe — an instrument for crushing a segment of intestine and so occluding its lumen, previous to resecting it sternotribe — applies to flowers with fertilizing elements so placed as to be ...
Donald M. Ayers, 1972
7
Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de L'Académie Des Sciences de L'URSS.
tribe mechanism, i. e. it represents <<a transition to the opposite». This is in harmony with the accepted derivation of the secondary Scrophulariceae from the sternotribe pseudosolanaceous plants. But it is incorrect to place Scrophularia ...
‎1946
8
Psyche
Compared with other groups the Dasygastrae show a marked predilection for sternotribe flowers, 47.5 per cent of thei pollen visits. They do not equal the Euceridae in their prefcr- erence for Compositae or antipathy to nototribe flowers.
‎1922
9
Hymenoptera reprints: Bradley collection
Compared with other groups the Dasygastrœ show a marked predilection for sternotribe flowers, 47.5 per cent of thei pollen visits. They do not equal the Euceridae in their prefer- erence for Compositœ or antipathy to nototribe flowers.
‎1960
10
Henderson's Dictionary of Biology
appl. a muscle connecting sternum and scapula. sternothyroid a. appl. muscle connecting manubrium of sternum and thyroid cartilage. sternotribe a. appl. flowers with fertilizing elements so placed as to be brushed by sternites of visiting  ...
Eleanor Lawrence, 2005

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Sternotribe [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/sternotribe>. Apr 2024 ».
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