| 单词 |
Hymenoptera |
| 释义 |
‖ Hymenoptera, n. pl. Zool.|haɪməˈnɒptərə|
[mod.L. (Linnæus, 1748), a. Gr. ὑµενόπτερα, neut. pl. of ὑµενόπτερος; see hymenopterous.]
A large and important order of insects (including the ants, wasps, bees, etc.), having four membranous wings (which are, however, sometimes caducous or absent); the females have an ovipositor, which may also serve as a sting.
1773T. P. Yeats Instit. Entom. 19 Hymenoptera..have four membranaceous naked wings..[and] the abdomen armed with a sting. 1802Kirby Monogr. Apium Ang. title-p., Some Introductory Remarks upon the Class Hymenoptera. 1834Medwin Angler in Wales I. 163 Like other hymenoptera, during the period of generation..they have wings.
Hence hymeˈnopteral a. = hymenopterous; hymeˈnopteran, a member of the order Hymenoptera; hymeˈnopterist, an entomologist whose special study is Hymenoptera.
1828Webster, Hymenopteral, having four membranous wings. 1842Brande Dict. Sc., etc., Hymenopterans. 1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 450 The female..never leaves the body of the Hymenopteran in which she is parasitic. 1881Pennsylv. Sch. Jrnl. XXX. 125 Prof. Henri de Saussen, a distinguished hymenopterist, of Geneva.
For Zool. read Ent. and add: hymenopteran: also as adj.
1910R. E. Snodgrass Anat. Honey Bee 40 The notched mandible of the drone and queen is of the ordinary Hymenopteran type. 1988R. S. K. Barnes et al. Invertebrates ix. 288/1 A hymenopteran or dipteran larva is large relative to the size of the parasitized insect prey. |
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