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gregaria phase (s) (noun), gregaria phases (pl)
A reference to certain insects during the period in which they are clustering in large numbers and are highly active: The agricultural students noticed that during the gregaria phase of the locusts life cycle, they were very noisy and moving around a great deal.
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