queenlike
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queenlike (comparative more queenlike, superlative most queenlike)
- Resembling or characteristic of a queen (female monarch); regal, majestic.
- Synonyms: queenly, reginal
- Antonym: unqueenlike
- (zoology) Resembling or characteristic of a queen (reproductive female animal).
- 1991, Kenneth G Ross, Robert W Matthews, The social biology of wasps:
- Although the laying workers functioned in a queenlike manner, they were unable to suppress ovarian development as effectively as the queen.