hymenopteron
Americannoun
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hymenoptera
plural
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Etymology
Origin of hymenopteron
1875–80; < Greek, neuter singular of hymenópteros “having winged membranes” from hymeno- + ptė́ron “wing”
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I have observed humble-bees a great deal, and feel convinced that they arc among the most highly intelligent of the social hymenoptera.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
The butterflies, moths, and hymenoptera, are few in number, and almost all seem to be common European species, whose presence is explained by the same causes as those which have introduced the birds.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
We find even to-day, among the melliferous hymenoptera, all the stages of progressive civilisation of our own domestic bee.
From The Life of the Bee by Alfred Sutro
But such also are, in the series of the articulate, the insects and in particular certain hymenoptera.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
And we never succeeded in shutting him up till Jeff dragged in the hymenoptera.
From Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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