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Definition of Horntails
1. horntail [n] - See also: horntail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horntails
Literary usage of Horntails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canadian Entomologist by Charles James Stewart Bethune, W. Saunders, Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), E. B. Reed, Entomological Society of Ontario (1898)
"For many years past, those most interesting of Hymenopterous in- sects — the
Horntails and the Sawflies — have received the closest study by some of the ..."
2. Labrador, the Country and the People by Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1909)
"... or wood-eating Hymenoptera, comprising the family Siricidae, or horntails,
the females being provided with a long, hornlike ovipositor adapted for ..."
3. Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the Canadian Forestry Association by Canadian Forestry Association (1900)
"They abounded 'with horntails and beetles—they were doomed, and only fit for
firewood. The settlers had beaten back the forest here and there, ..."
4. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"They are distinguished from the saw-flies by the fact that the fore shanks have
only one spur at the tip instead of two. are" called 'horntails' because the ..."
5. Animal Communities in Temperate America: As Illustrated in the Chicago by Victor Ernest Shelford (1913)
"In logs of fallen basswood we found the larvae of Tenebrionidae and Cerambycidae
and of horntails, the burrowing hymenoptera, and the Mycetophilidae larvae ..."
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