hymenopteron

[ hahy-muh-nop-ter-uhn ]

noun

, plural hy·me·nop·ter·a [hahy-m, uh, -, nop, -ter-ter-, uh].

1. hymenopteran.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hymenopteron¹

1875–80; < Greek, neuter singular of hymenópteros “having winged membranes” from hymeno- + ptė́ron “wing”

Example Sentences

Thorax of a Hymenopteron from above.

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Wing venation of a Hymenopteron.

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Such is the appearance of the edifice when the cell stands alone; but the Hymenopteron nearly always fixes other domes against her first, to the number of five, six, or more.

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A small Hymenopteron, almost invisible, the Microgaster glomeratus, is entrusted with the destruction of the cabbage caterpillar; the cochineal wages war to the death upon the green-fly; the Ammophila is the predestined murderer of the harvest Noctuela, whose misdeeds in a beetroot country often amount to a disaster.

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The Palarus, who preys upon an indefinite number of the Hymenopteron clan, refuses to tell me if she drinks the honey of the Bees, as does the Philanthus, or if she lets the others go without manipulating them to make them disgorge.

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