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hymenoptera

hymenoptera is the plural of hymenopteron.

Meaning of hymenopteron

Noun

hymenopteron (plural hymenoptera or hymenopterons)

  1. Any insect of the order Hymenoptera
    • The remaining insects included larvae of midges, soldier-flies, horse-flies, may-flies, a hymenopteron, and a bird louse, of a species (Lipeurus squalidus) known to infest the Shoveller.1922, John Charles Phillips, A Natural History of the Ducks

Questions about hymenoptera

What is hymenoptera the plural of?
Hymenoptera is the plural of hymenopteron.

Words near hymenoptera in the dictionary

  1. hymenoplasty
  2. hymenopodid
  3. hymenopodids
  4. hymenoptaecin
  5. hymenopter
  6. hymenoptera
  7. hymenopteral
  8. hymenopteran
  9. hymenopterans
  10. hymenopteriform
  11. hymenopterist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hymenoptera (page history and authors); hymenopteron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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