masarine

English

Noun

masarine (plural masarines)

(entomology) Any wasp in the subfamily Masarinae.
- 2007, James H. Hunt, The Evolution of Social Wasps, page 28:
  In contrast to the majority of bees, which transport pollen externally, masarines take pollen mixed with nectar from flowers with deep corollas (Gess 1996).

Anagrams

Erasmian, Mairenas, Seminara

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