polylecty

English

Etymology

Probably from polylectic +‎ -y.

Noun

polylecty (uncountable)

1. (entomology) The condition of being polylectic.
   • 2020, R. G. Vastrad, “Specialized Bees Fail to Develop on Non-host Pollen: Do Plants Chemically Protect Their Pollen?”, in A Study of Floral Specialization in Solitary Bees, Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu, →ISBN, page 31:

     The two most basal bee families, Dasypodaidae and Mellitidae, are predominantly composed of pollen specialists, indicating that oligolecty might be the ancestral state in bees […]. In the western Palaearctic anthidiine bees, several transitions from oligolecty to polylecty were found, but none from polylecty to oligolecty […].

Coordinate terms

• mesolecty
• monolecty
• oligolecty