The largest collection is that of aculeate wasps and bees, numbering c 160 000. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.academiaexchange.net/1.Science_Exchange/Nature_Expos/Collection/Entomology.html]
aculeate insects such as bees and wasps. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The fauna of the Succulent Karoo has a rich complement of endemics, especially among the arachnids, hopliniid beetles, aculeate Hymenoptera, and reptiles. From Wordnik.com. [Succulent Karoo] Reference
Some polychaetes such as the sea mouse Aphrodite aculeate also bear a ventral muscular, creeping sole; myzostomids have a circular body with fused parapodia, which also forms a ventral foot like structure. From Wordnik.com. [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The one, of extreme bitterness of words, especially if they be aculeate and proper; for cummunia maledicta are nothing so much; and again, that in anger a man reveal no secrets; for that, makes him not fit for society. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays] Reference
Dispersed in the grasslands are trees of Crecentia cujete, Ceiba pentandra, Lecythis minor, Ochroma pyramidale, Prosopis juliflora, Cavanillesia platanifolia and palms trees of Sabal mauritiiformis, Acrocomia aculeate, Attalea butyracea and several Bactris spp. From Wordnik.com. [Sinú Valley dry forests] Reference
His defection aggrieved her so bitterly, that the fiercest of her wrath turned upon him; and after a wrangle wherein all the parties concerned had made liberal use of those "aculeate and proper" words against which the wary Bacon warns his quarrelling readers, she flounced away into the darkness of the small hours of the stormy December morning, loudly avowing her determination never to see a sight of the ugly, dirty, mane-spirited poltroon, or open her lips to him as long as she had an eye or a tongue in her head. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
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