hymenopteran
/ˌhʌɪmɛˈnɒpt(ə)rən
/ /ˌhʌɪmɪˈnɒpt(ə)rən/Entomology
noun
An insect of the order Hymenoptera, such as a bee, wasp, or ant.Flies and hymenopterans (bees and wasps) also differ in their flight patterns....
- The honeybee, like other hymenopteran species, is characterized by a haplodiploid system of reproduction.
- Our Malaise traps captured primarily dipterans, hymenopterans, and coleopterans.
adjective
Relating to or denoting hymenopterans.The composition stationarity test using the hymenopteran data was designed in a similar way, using just the 16S gene....
- What has happened here is that a parasitic hymenopteran has injected her tiny egg into a golden egg.
- The honeybee, like other hymenopteran species, is characterized by a haplodiploid system of reproduction.
Derivatives
hymenopterous
/ /ˌhʌɪmɪˈnɒpt(ə)rəs / adjective ...- In a matter of hours the presidential election, heretofore free of interference from legal insects, was overrun by hymenopterous lawyers.
- Three species of hymenopterous parasites - Eurytoma sp., Microbracon sp., and Tetrastichus sp. - have been reared in New Jersey.
- On the 1st December I bred also from another ovum a small hymenopterous parasite.