Hymenopter

Hy`me`nop´ter

n.

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(Zool.) One of the Hymenoptera.

Thesaurus

Noun

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hymenopter - insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect insect - small air-breathing arthropod Hymenoptera, order Hymenoptera - an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc. bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species wasp - social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting family Mutillidae, Mutillidae - a family of wasps chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidfly - any of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects ichneumon fly - hymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae sawfly - insect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant ant, emmet, pismire - social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers