eusocial
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eusocial (not comparable)
- (biology) Of or pertaining to certain social animals' societies (such as those of ants) in which sterile individuals work for reproductive individuals whose genetic endowment they share
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Borrowed from English eusocial. By surface analysis, eu- + social. First used in 1966.
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eusocial (feminine eusociale, masculine plural eusociaux, feminine plural eusociales)
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eusocial m or f (masculine and feminine plural eusociales)