You searched for: “claustral”
claustral (adjective), more claustral, most claustral
1. Of or related to a cloister or to a seclusion from the world: "The elderly couple lived a claustral life in which they separated from a normal existence in the world."
2. Etymology: from Latin claustrum, "bolt, bar". The Latin claustrum stands for claudtrom and literally means "that by which anything is shut up", and is formed from claudere, "to shut".
This entry is located in the following units: claustro-, claustr- (page 1) clud-, claud-, claus-, clos-, -clude, -clois, -cluding, -cluded, -clus, -clusion, -clusive (page 1)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “claustral”
claustral colony founding (s) (noun), claustral colony founding (pl)
The procedure during which ant queens, or royal pairs in the case of termites, seal themselves off in cells: During the course of claustral colony founding,the ant queens rear the first generation of workers on nutrients obtained mostly or entirely from their own storage tissues, including fat bodies and histolysed wing muscles (dissolution and absorption of tissue).
This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 5)
partially claustral colony founding
The procedure during which the queen founds the colony by isolating herself in a chamber but occasionally leaves to forage for part of her food supply.
This entry is located in the following unit: Ant and Related Entomology Terms (page 15)