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Definition of Hymenopterans
1. hymenopteran [n] - See also: hymenopteran
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hymenopterans
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 ..."