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“replete”
replete (adjective), more replete, most replete
1. Something that is well filled or well supplied with something: The replete cabinets in Sam's house were full of valuable antiques.
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The diners were replete after eating the eight-course dinner in the restaurant.
2. Etymology: from Latin repletus, "filled up" from replere, from re-, "again" + plere, "to fill."Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
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ple-, pleini-, plen-, plet-
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“replete”
replete (s), repletes (pl)
1. An individual ant whose crop is greatly distended with liquid food, to the extent that the abdominal segments are pulled apart and the intersegmental membranes are stretched tight.
Repletes usually serve as living reservoirs, regurgitating food on demand to their nest mates.
2. In some colonies, the foraging workers gather termites, nectar from desert plants, and honeydew from homopterous insects, and store them in the crops of the repletes, nest mates that are specialized to serve as food storage receptacles.A forager will regurgitate liquid from her crop into an expanding replete, while other full repletes hang from the ceiling of the nest chamber.
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Ant and Related Entomology Terms
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