Usually means: Stinging insects like bees, wasps.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. aculeate: Merriam-Webster
  2. aculeate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aculeate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aculeate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aculeate: Vocabulary.com
  6. aculeate: Wordnik
  7. aculeate: Wiktionary
  8. aculeate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. aculeate: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. aculeate: Dictionary.com
  11. Aculeate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Aculeate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. aculeate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. aculeate: Rhymezone
  15. Aculeate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. aculeate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. aculeate: FreeDictionary.org
  18. aculeate: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. aculeate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. aculeate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. aculeate: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aculeate: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. aculeate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. aculeate: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. aculeate: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

(Note: See aculeates as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (aculeate)

adjective:  Having a sting; sharp like a prickle.
adjective:  Having prickles or sharp points.
adjective:  (entomology) Having a stinger; stinging.
noun:  Any insect of the infraorder Aculeata, which have ovipositors modified into stingers.

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