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Definition of Megachile
1. Noun. Type genus of the Megachilidae: leaf-cutting bees.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Megachilidae, Megachilidae
Member holonyms: Leaf-cutter, Leaf-cutter Bee, Leaf-cutting Bee
Definition of Megachile
1. n. A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.
Definition of Megachile
1. Noun. (zoology) A leaf-cutting bee of the genus ''Megachile'' (formerly ''Megachilus''). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Megachile
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Megachile
Literary usage of Megachile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of British Hymenoptera in the Collection of the British Museum by Frederick Smith (1855)
"Megachile. Apis, pt., Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 419 (1687). ... The bees included in
the genus Megachile are popularly called Leaf-cutters, from the circumstance ..."
2. Transactions of the American Entomological Society by American Entomological Society (1905)
"This, and the fact that of all bees Megachile is, perhaps, most widely spread on
oceanic islands, lend support to the idea that the bees, are distributed by ..."
3. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"A month after I opened the hole by taking out the brick, and found the hole for
about two inches filled with wax. THE LEAF-CELLED BEE [Megachile ..."
4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1907)
"... the last segment is thickly covered above with long black, stiff pubescence ;
the basal segments are narrowly banded with white pubescence. Megachile ..."
5. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1863-1871), Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1903)
"NOTES ON FIVE SPECIES OF Megachile. BY TDA COCKERELL, EAST LAS VEGAS, ...
Megachile inimica, Cresson.—Las Vegas, NM, one male at flowers of Verbena ..."
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