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aculeate

[ə′kyü·lē·ət]
(biology)
Pertaining to something that is prickly.
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Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of the methanolic extract of Neorhodomela aculeate in hippocampal and microglial cells.
Blades 7-18 cm long, rigid, erect-curved, glaucous with the apex acuminate, acute and very pungent, not aculeate. Leaf blade cross section elliptic, 0.85-1.35 mm in diameter, with up to 9 veins; sclerenchyma forming a complete ring with a thickness of 3-5 cells, 4-5 grooves, 35 ridges (Figures 2a, 2b, 2c).
Ants, bees and stinging wasps all belong to the aculeate (stinging) Hymenoptera clade - the insect group in which social behavior is most extensively developed, senior author and ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at UC Davis, said.
Ants, bees and stinging wasps all belong to the aculeate (stinging) Hymenoptera clade -- the insect group in which social behavior is most extensively developed, said senior author and ant specialist Phil Ward, professor of entomology at UC Davis.
[13.] Hossain MA, Focken U and K Becker Nutritional evaluation of dhaincha (Sesbania aculeate) seeds as dietary protein source for tilapia Oreochromis niloticus.
Lanuginosum ; http://plants.usda.gov/java/), Celtis pallida, Cephalanthus occidentalis, Condalia hookeri, Maclura pomifera, Melia azedarach, Morus rubra, Parkinsonia aculeate, Prosopis glandulosa, and Ungnadia speciosa.
Use of refuges by the ophiuroid Ophiopholis aculeate: contrasting effects of substratum complexity on predation risk from two predators.
(2005) report no relationship between bees, grasshoppers, and aculeate wasps, in a mosaic landscape in the Swiss Alps.