| 单词 | hymenopter |
| 释义 | hymenopter (once / 1181932 pages) n WORD FAMILY hymenopter: hymenopters USAGE EXAMPLESCousin Benedict would have preferred not to have robbed these industrious hymenopters of the "fruit of their labors," as he expressed it. Verne, Jules, Dick Sand—A Captain at Fifteen(2010) n insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing Syn|Hypo|Hyper hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect bee any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species waspsocial or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting Mutillidae, family Mutillidaea family of wasps chalcid, chalcid fly, chalcid wasp, chalcidflyany of various tiny insects whose larvae are parasites on eggs and larvae of other insects; many are beneficial in destroying injurious insects ichneumon flyhymenopterous insect that resembles a wasp and whose larvae are parasitic on caterpillars and other insect larvae sawflyinsect whose female has a saw-like ovipositor for inserting eggs into the leaf or stem tissue of a host plant ant, emmet, pismiresocial insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers dronestingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen Apis mellifera, honeybeesocial bee often domesticated for the honey it produces carpenter beelarge solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems bumblebee, humblebeerobust hairy social bee of temperate regions cuckoo-bumblebeea bee that is parasitic in the nests of bumblebees andrena, andrenid, mining beea bee that is a member of the genus Andrena Nomia melanderi, alkali beea common solitary bee important for pollinating alfalfa in the western United States leaf-cutter, leaf-cutter bee, leaf-cutting beebee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest mason beeany of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand potter beesolitary bee that builds nests of mud or pebbles cemented together and attached to a plant vespid, vespid waspmostly social nest-building wasps velvet anta solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae; the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless sphecoid, sphecoid waspany of various solitary wasps cynipid gall wasp, cynipid wasp, gall wasp, gallflysmall solitary wasp that produces galls on oaks and other plants chalcis flya variety of chalcid fly Fenusa pusilla, birch leaf minersmall black sawfly native to Europe but established in eastern United States; larvae mine the leaves of birches causing serious defoliation Monomorium pharaonis, pharaoh ant, pharaoh's antsmall red ant of warm regions; a common household pest Monomorium minimum, little black anttiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food army ant, driver ant, legionary anttropical nomadic ant that preys mainly on other insects carpenter antant that nests in decaying wood in which it bores tunnels for depositing eggs fire antomnivorous ant of tropical and subtropical America that can inflict a painful sting Formica rufa, wood antreddish-brown European ant typically living in anthills in woodlands slave antany of various ants captured as larvae and enslaved by another species slave-maker, slave-making antan ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants bulldog antany of the large fierce Australian ants of the genus Myrmecia insect small air-breathing arthropod |
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