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Hymenopteron   Listen
noun
hymenopteron  n.  Same as hymenopteran.
Synonyms: hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymnenopter.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Hymenopteron" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hunting Wasp, feeding her larvae on Spiders. Cf. "The Life and Love of the Insect": chapter 12.—Translator's Note.) dwelling in the prehistoric coal-forests. Her prey was some hideous Scorpion, that first-born of the Arachnida. How did the Hymenopteron master the terrible prey? Analogy tells us, by the methods of the present slayer of Tarantulae. It disarmed the adversary; it paralysed the venomous sting by a stroke administered at a point which we could determine for ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre

... 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. This shortens the labour by allowing her to use the same partition for two adjoining rooms. The original elegant symmetry is lost and the whole now forms a cluster which, at first sight, ...
— The Wonders of Instinct • J. H. Fabre

... already occupied by the perfect insect. The precocity of metamorphosis varies from one larva to another; however, a few days' difference of age is enough to explain these inequalities of development. Other cells, as numerous as the first, contain a parasitical Hymenopteron, a Melecta (M. armata), likewise in the perfect state. Lastly, there are some, indeed many, which contain a singular egg-shaped shell, divided into segments with projecting breathing-pores. This shell is extremely thin and fragile; ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Hymenopteron" :   chalcid, hymenopteran, wasp, hymenopter, emmet, pismire, ant, hymenopterous insect, Hymenoptera, bee, chalcid fly, chalcidfly, ichneumon fly, family Mutillidae



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