sexuales

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sexuales (noun, plural; Latin sexus, sex): (Arthropoda: Insecta) In the life-cycle of aphids and adelgids, apterous forms produced on the primary host; the eggs the females lay hatch in the autumn, giving rise to nymphs of the apterous fundatrices.