Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Producing more than one brood in a single season.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having several (at least more than two) annual broods; generated oftener than twice a year: said of silkworm-moths and their larvæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having several
broods orgenerations in a year.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[multi– + French -voltine, having a given number of broods in one season (from Italian volta, time, turn; see volt).]
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Examples
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Also known as Endi or Errandi, Eri is a multivoltine silk spun from open-ended cocoons, unlike other varieties of silk.
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It is obtained from semi-domesticated multivoltine silkworm, Antheraea assamensis.
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