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Definition of Inquilines
1. inquiline [n] - See also: inquiline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inquilines
Literary usage of Inquilines
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 (1903)
"ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF ACULEATE inquilines AND THEIR HOSTS. BY EDWARD SAUNDERS,
FB8., Sic. The very interesting paper on Vespa austriaca and V. rufa, ..."
2. ... California Gall-making Cynipidae with Descriptions of New Species by Mary Isabel McCracken, Dorothy Barnes Egbert (1922)
"In the late winter or early spring the adult females gnaw their way through the
galls and emerge ready to oviposit. BIOLOGY OF NON-GALL MAKERS, inquilines ..."
3. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera by Peter. Carmeron (1893)
"As has already been pointed out, the larger galls may afford nourishment to the
maker and to one or more inquilines, while it is of not uncommon occurrence ..."
4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia by Entomological Society of Philadelphia (1864)
"occasionally inhabit these galls, there are of true inquilines which seem to ...
From the great number of these inquilines, it must be obvious that there is ..."
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