regina

Definitions of regina
  1. noun
    the wife or widow of a king
  2. noun
    one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a queen
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    figura
    one of the twelve cards in a deck bearing a picture of a face
  3. noun
    the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs
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    insetto
    small air-breathing arthropod
  4. noun
    (chess) the most powerful piece
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    pezzo, scacco
    any of 16 white and 16 black pieces used in playing the game of chess
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