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adj. - Of or relating to insects of a certain order

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  • It is particularly observable in a hymenopterous insect called the
  • These are often wasps belonging to one of several different genera of the hymenopterous family Agaonidae (Chalcidoidea).
  • Ants would not be separated from other hymenopterous insects, however high the instinct of the one and however low the instincts of the other.
  • The diminutive florets on its flat disk are so shallow that lepidopterous and hymenopterous insects, with their long proboses, stand no chance of getting a meal.
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