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Definition of Polistes
1. Noun. A genus of Vespidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Vespidae, Vespidae
Member holonyms: Polistes Annularis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polistes
Literary usage of Polistes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1866)
"... of the nest and method of attachment—Variety of Polistes nest—Polistes aterrimus
and its singular nest—Beautiful structure of an unknown Polistes. ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"This assertion is in complete contradiction to the phenomenon which may be observed
in Polistes gallica with regard to the production of the sexes. ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"The honey of Polistes, on the contrary, turns it to the right, ... Bertrand infers
from this fact that Polistes either does not, like the bees, ..."
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