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Definition of Cynips
1. Noun. Type genus of the Cynipidae: gall wasps.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Cynipidae, Family Cynipidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cynips
Literary usage of Cynips
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1864)
"Last summer, a correspondent sent me a mass of succulent root galls, on opening
a few of which, I found inside the large apterous cynips in the perfect ..."
2. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"683 (cynips). Gall-flies and galls. ... (cynips.); Trans. Am. Ent. Soc., Vol.
XVII, 1890, p. ... Ent., Vol. XIII, 1881, p. 107 (cynips). ..."
3. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1884)
"Also about 35 species of parasitic Hymenoptera bred from the galls of cynips
Kollari; several of these were undetermined and probably new. ..."
4. Strange Dwellings: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals by John George Wood (1872)
"cynips Kollari (slightly magnified). Oak Apple. ... Galls of cynips Kollari.
Currant Galls of Oak. surface is highly polished and shining, much like that of ..."
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