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Caprification :: Caprification (n.) The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects..

Xylocopa :: Xylocopa (n.) A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter..

Glossa :: Glossa (n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera..

Hymen :: Hymen (n.) A fold of muscous membrane often found at the orifice of the vagina; the vaginal membrane.

Stalk :: Stalk (n.) The narrow basal portion of the abdomen of a hymenopterous insect.

Terebrantia :: Terebrantia (n. pl.) A division of Hymenoptera including those which have an ovipositor adapted for perforating plants. It includes the sawflies.

Thymene :: Thymene (n.) A liquid terpene obtained from oil of thyme.

Fossores :: Fossores (n. pl.) A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched..

Tegula :: Tegula (n.) A small appendage situated above the base of the wings of Hymenoptera and attached to the mesonotum.

Hymenopterous :: Hymenopterous (a.) Like, or characteristic of, the Hymenoptera; pertaining to the Hymenoptera..

Hymenomycetes :: Hymenomycetes (n. pl.) One of the great divisions of fungi, containing those species in which the hymenium is completely exposed..

Hymen :: Hymen (n.) Marriage; union as if by marriage.

Hymeneal :: Hymeneal (n.) Alt. of Hymenea.

Wasp :: Wasp (n.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets..

Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..

Bee :: Bee (n.) An insect of the order Hymenoptera, and family Apidae (the honeybees), or family Andrenidae (the solitary bees.) See Honeybee..

Hymenopteral :: Hymenopteral (a.) Alt. of Hymenopterou.

Horntail :: Horntail (n.) Any one of family (Uroceridae) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvae bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females..

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Entomophaga :: Entomophaga (n. pl.) One of a group of hymenopterous insects whose larvae feed parasitically upon living insects. See Ichneumon, 2..

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