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antiqueen

adj

Etymology

From anti- + queen.

  1. inherited from *gʷḗn✻
  2. inherited from *kwēniz✻
  3. inherited from *kwāni✻
  4. inherited from cwēn
  5. inherited from quene
  6. prefixed as antiqueen — “anti + queen”

Definitions

  1. Inhibiting the development of normal bees into queen bees.

    • If the queen dies there is no longer any "antiqueen" pheromone released and one or more of the nymphs develop into queens.
    • The composition of a bee society is controlled by an antiqueen pheromone secreted by the queen. It inhibits the workers from raising a new queen...

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for antiqueen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA