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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To entomologists the Daisy is interesting as an attractive flower to insects; for "it is visited by nine hymenoptera, thirteen diptera, three coleoptera, and two lepidoptera—namely, the least meadow-brown and the common blue butterflies."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
The land evertebrates were so sparingly represented, that only three diptera, one species of hymenoptera, and some insect larvæ and spiders could be collected.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Compare the different forms of the same instinct in different species of hymenoptera.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
Neuration, difference of, in the two sexes of some butterflies and hymenoptera.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The creatures which you sketch are marvellous, and I should not have guessed that they were hymenoptera.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin
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