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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] membrane-winged; [GREEK] skin, membrane + [GREEK] wing.]

(Zool.)

An extensive order of insects, including the bees, ants, ichneumons, sawflies, etc.

Hymenoptera

A taxonomic order within the superorder Endopterygota – the sawflies, wasps, bees and ants.

(order): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder

a taxonomic order