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Definition of Inquiline
1. n. A gallfly which deposits its eggs in galls formed by other insects.
Definition of Inquiline
1. Noun. An animal that lives commensally in the nest, burrow, gall, or dwelling place of an animal of another species. ¹
2. Noun. An organism that lives within a reservoir of water collected in the hollow of a plant stem or leaf. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inquiline
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Medical Definition of Inquiline
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Inquiline
Literary usage of Inquiline
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1904)
"Article I.—THREE NEW GENERA OF inquiline ANTS FROM UTAH AND COLORADO. By WILLIAM
MORTON WHEELER. PLATES I AND II. The three genera of ants described in this ..."
2. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1865)
"Reinhard, however, objects to this : ho thinks that if there were really dimorphism
in the females, so that both the inquiline female and the maker of the ..."
3. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1899)
"Characters connected with nectar-sucking, pollen-collecting, and the inquiline
habit ate, as compared with the venation, more physiological. ..."
4. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1898)
"Vespa austríaca, Panz., inquiline in the nest of Vespa rufa, L.—A most interesting
article on the above wasp by Mr. Charles Robson, ..."
5. Annual Report by Entomological Society of Ontario, Ontario. Dept. of Agriculture (1884)
"He had also found it as an inquiline in the gall of ... in varying degree, the
four characteristics of gall-maker, leaf-crumpler, stem-borer, and inquiline. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"... and identical with the species that I know, as before stated, to be an inquiline
in the oak-apple of ... I have bred another inquiline ..."
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