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HYMENOPTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hymenopter mean? 

HYMENOPTER (noun)
  The noun HYMENOPTER has 1 sense:

1. insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercingplay

  Familiarity information: HYMENOPTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYMENOPTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

hymenopter; hymenopteran; hymenopteron; hymenopterous insect

Hypernyms ("hymenopter" is a kind of...):

insect (small air-breathing arthropod)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hymenopter"):

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)

Holonyms ("hymenopter" is a member of...):

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)


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