Claustral

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  • adjective. Of or relating to a method of establishing a new colony, found in certain social insects, in which a queen (in ants) or a queen and king pair (in termites) sequesters itself in a small chamber and hatches the first generation of workers, nourishing them primarily on stored body fat.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a claustrum, especially of the brain.
  • adjective. undefined
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to a cloister; cloistral.
  • Resembling a religious house in its seclusion; cloister-like; secluded.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Cloistral.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a cloister.
  • adjective. Having cloisters; cloistered.
  • Word Usage
    "Except for the choir and the sacristy, it was the only place that allowed some frequency of male entry. 80 The constitutions deal at some length with the possible necessity of male entrance into the female environment of the claustral buildings."
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    cloistral