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Definition of Genus cynips

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cynipidae: gall wasps.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Cynips

Literary usage of Genus cynips

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization: Arranged in by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1832)
"... in treating of which we shall confine our observations to the genus CYNIPS, and say a few words respecting the nature of galls in general. ..."

2. More Letters of Charles Darwin: A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto by Charles Darwin (1903)
"... so-called " three sexes " not only in social insects but [also in the] strictly solitary genus Cynips. When is your great work to make its appearance ? ..."

3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"5) brings to light a very interesting case of alternation of generations in the genus Cynips as restricted by Mayr. ..."

4. Report by Oklahoma Adjutant-general's office (1859)
"... its second veinlet edged with smoky along its hind side and singularly bent, show its greater affinity to these than to the species of the genus Cynips. ..."

5. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by American Entomological Society, Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"... but not in " the species of the genus Cynips," and that this " appears to be a generic character of much value" (NY Rep. II, § 318), and knowing that ..."

6. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1833)
"... independent of the necessary variation in internal organisation, its antennae, wings, &c., differ from those of the type of the genus Cynips: and hence, ..."

7. The Zoological Record ...: Being Records of Zoological Literature by Zoological Record Association (London, England), Zoological Society of London (1868)
"181-183) remarks upon the occurrence of females only among many thousand specimens of species of the genus Cynips bred by himself and other entomologists. ..."

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