Definition of Hymenopterans

1. Noun. (plural of hymenopteran) ¹

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Definition of Hymenopterans

1. hymenopteran [n] - See also: hymenopteran

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymenopterans

hymenoid
hymenolepiasis
hymenolepidid
hymenolepis
hymenology
hymenomycetes
hymenophoral trama
hymenophore
hymenophores
hymenoplasties
hymenoplasty
hymenopter
hymenoptera
hymenopteral
hymenopteran
hymenopterans (current term)
hymenopteron
hymenopterons
hymenopterous
hymenopterous insect
hymenopters
hymenorrhaphies
hymenostomatida
hymenotomy
hymens
hymenæal
hymie
hymies
hymn

Literary usage of Hymenopterans

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

1. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The oldest hymenopterans are ancestral to the modern ants. In the Tertiary deposits are found representatives of all the important families in fossil forms ..."

2. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of by Richard Owen, Royal College of Surgeons of England Museum (1840)
"which is cemented to the bottom of the cell, to the pupa in the closed cell, is very clearly displayed. 3105. A similar preparation. 3106. Two hymenopterans ..."

3. The Farmer's Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Technical Terms Recently by Daniel Pereira Gardner (1854)
"The hygrometer. HYMENIUM. The gills or porous membranes in which the spores of fungi are placed. hymenopterans, HYMEN- OPTERA (from ..."

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