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PRONUNCIATION OF SUBSOCIAL

subsocial  [sʌbˈsəʊʃəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSOCIAL

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

WHAT DOES SUBSOCIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

subsocial

Sociality

Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups and form cooperative societies. Sociality is a survival response to evolutionary pressures. For example, when a mother wasp stays near her larvae in the nest, parasites are less likely to eat the larvae. Biologists suspect that pressures from parasites and other predators selected this behavior in wasps of the family Vespidae. This wasp behaviour evidences the most fundamental characteristic of animal sociality: parental investment. Parental investment is any expenditure of resources to benefit one offspring. Parental investment detracts from a parent's capacity to invest in future reproduction and aid to kin. An animal that cares for its young but shows no other sociality traits is said to be subsocial. An animal that exhibits a high degree of sociality is called a social animal. The highest degree of sociality recognized by sociobiologists is eusociality. A eusocial taxon is one that exhibits overlapping adult generations, reproductive division of labor, cooperative care of young, and—in the most refined cases—a biological caste system.

Definition of subsocial in the English dictionary

The definition of subsocial in the dictionary is lacking a complex or definite social structure.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUBSOCIAL


antisocial
ˌæntɪˈsəʊʃəl
asocial
eɪˈsəʊʃəl
biosocial
ˌbaɪəʊˈsəʊʃəl
bushel
ˈbʊʃəl
dystocial
dɪsˈtəʊʃəl
eusocial
juːˈsəʊʃəl
heterosocial
ˌhɛtərəʊˈsəʊʃəl
homosocial
ˌhəʊməʊˈsəʊʃəl
nonsocial
ˌnɒnˈsəʊʃəl
praecocial
priːˈkəʊʃəl
precocial
prɪˈkəʊʃəl
prosocial
prəʊˈsəʊʃəl
psychosocial
ˌsaɪkəʊˈsəʊʃəl
social
ˈsəʊʃəl
unsocial
ʌnˈsəʊʃəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSOCIAL

subsistence economy
subsistence farmer
subsistence farming
subsistence level
subsistence wage
subsistent
subsistential
subsite
subsizar
subskill
subsocially
subsociety
subsoil
subsoiler
subsolar
subsong
subsonic
subsonically
subspace
subspecialise

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSOCIAL

artificial
beneficial
crucial
dissocial
especial
extra-special
facial
fecial
financial
glacial
interracial
judicial
maxillofacial
noncommercial
official
provincial
racial
special
superficial
unofficial

Synonyms and antonyms of subsocial in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

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Translator English - Hindi

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Translator English - Tamil

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Translator English - Marathi

सभासद
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subsocial
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Translator English - Italian

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Translator English - Afrikaans

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Trends of use of subsocial

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSOCIAL»

The term «subsocial» is used very little and occupies the 178.075 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSOCIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about subsocial

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSOCIAL»

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The Social Behavior of the Bees: A Comparative Study
Young colonies of Bombus, before workers are produced, are subsocial; the queen progressively feeds the growing larvae in a more or less subdivided common cell. The allodapine bees are more consistently subsocial, although many ...
Charles Duncan Michener, 1974
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Biology of Termites: a Modern Synthesis: A Modern Synthesis
Few species have both eusocial and subsocial forms. This is true of termites and ants, which have no modern groups that shift between subsocial and eusocial forms such as we see in the primitively eusocial bees (Wilson 1971; Thorne 1997 ; ...
David Edward Bignell, Yves Roisin, Nathan Lo, 2010
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The Insects: An Outline of Entomology
7.4) and social behavior, including parental care, of the subsocial cockroach family Cryptocercidae gives insights into the origin of sociality, discussed in more detail in section 12.4.2. Egg and early-instar attendance is predominantly a female ...
P. J. Gullan, P. S. Cranston, 2010
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesis
Table 20-1 The degrees of sociality in the insects, showing intermediate parasocial and subsocial states that can lead to the highest (eusocial) form of organization. Cooperative brood care TRIBE ECTATOMMINI Ectatomma and others TRIBE ...
Edward O. Wilson, 2000
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Cockroaches: Ecology, Behavior, and Natural History
The variety of known subsocial interactions in cockroaches, however, is among the richest in the insects, and ranges from species in which females remain with neonates for a few hours, to biparental care that lasts several years and includes  ...
William J. Bell, Louis M. Roth, Christine A. Nalepa, 2007
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Animal Behavior Desk Reference: A Dictionary of Animal ...
routes to eusociality to Eusociality solitary (presocial) – – – communal (presocial) – – – quasi-social (presocial) + – – semisocial (presocial) + + – metasocial ( presocial) + – + eusocial + + + Subsocial Route to Eusociality solitary (presocial)  ...
Edward M. Barrows, 2011
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The Other Insect Societies
Table 1.2 Traditional Social Insect Classification Label Defining traits Subsocial Parental care of immatures Communal Members of the same generation live together No brood care Quasisocial Members of the same generation live together ...
James T. Costa, 2006
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Evolutionary Ecology of Social and Sexual Systems : ...
Many researchers agree that eusociality (i.e., overlapping adult generations, cooperative care for offspring, reproductive skew, and division of labor) in most species has evolved via the subsocial route (i.e., parents cohabiting with offspring) ...
J. Emmett Duffy Professor of Marine Science College of William and Mary, Coquimbo Martin Thiel Professor of Marine Biology Universidad Catolica del Norte, 2007
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Issues in Life Sciences—Zoology: 2013 Edition
According to news reporting from Washington, District of Columbia, by VerticalNews editors, the researcher stated “Species of the cobweb spider genus Anelosimus range from solitary to subsocial to social, and sociality has evolved ...
‎2013
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Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of the 11th ...
SUBSOCIAL. STAPHYLINID. BEETLES. WyattTD Department for External Studies, University of Oxford, 1 Wellington Square, OXFORD OX1 2JA, UK For air -breathing terrestrial insects the intertidal saltmarsh, covered by the tide twice a day, ...
International Union for the Study of Social Insects. Congress, G. K. Veeresh, B. Mallik, 1990

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSOCIAL»

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From Darwin to moramora ('take it easy'): Ten new subsocial spider …
Ten subsocial cobweb spider species were discovered in a research on nearly 400 Madagascan colonies, conducted by Dr. Agnarsson's team. Most of them are ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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What's for dinner? Mom.
“Dramatic histological changes preceding suicidal maternal care in the subsocial spider Stegodyphus lineatus (Araneae: Eresidae).” Journal of Arachnology. «Science News for Students, May 15»
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When mom serves herself as dinner
Dramatic histological changes preceding suicidal maternal care in the subsocial spider Stegodyphus lineatus (Araneae: Eresidae). Journal of Arachnology. Vol. «Science News, Apr 15»
4
Five New Bess Beetles Discovered in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru
Beetles in the family Passalidae are one of the few groups of beetles that are subsocial — the adults actually care for their young and nest in decaying logs. «Entomology Today, Apr 15»
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Researchers find spiders' suicide mechanism for sake of offspring
... Journal of Arachnology, under the heading “Dramatic histological changes preceding suicidal maternal care in the subsocial spider Stegodyphus lineatus.”. «Haaretz, Mar 15»
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Absurd Creature of the Week: This Is an Actual Insect. This Is Not a …
Treehoppers are what are known as subsocial insects, meaning they're not forming societies as such. Instead, ma just sticks around to see that her weird kids ... «Wired, Dec 14»
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Earwigs use 'chemical clouds' for protection
There are approximately 2,000 species of earwigs. They are known as subsocial insects because they display maternal care: a behaviour rarely found in insects. «BBC News, Nov 13»
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Beetles In Central And South America Show Signs Of Maternal …
Complex subsocial behavior was observed in pairs of one of the species studied, D. paykulli, interacting aggressively on newly expanded leaves. Whether these ... «RedOrbit, Sep 13»
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Baby cannibal spider gang makes web vibrate in time
Other species are subsocial, where individual spiders come together and ... They belong to the subsocial spiders, with the young baby spiders displaying a ... «BBC News, Jun 10»

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