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ichneumon /ɪkˈnjuːmən /noun1 (also ichneumon wasp or ichneumon fly) A slender parasitic wasp with long antennae, which deposits its eggs in, on, or near the larvae of other insects.- Family Ichneumonidae, order Hymenoptera: numerous genera and species.
For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp....- They belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and ichneumons.
- The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians.
2 another term for Egyptian mongoose.They also are in competition for food with the swamp ichneumon, which preys on crabs....- There are also jackals, wolves, the ichneumon and, possibly, a polecat.
Origin Late 15th century (in sense 2): via Latin from Greek ikhneumōn 'tracker', from ikhneuein 'to track', from ikhnos 'track, footstep'. Rhymes crewman, crewmen, energumen, human, Newman, numen, Schumann, subhuman, Trueman |