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J Ants Bees Wasps
Biology
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a small industrious insect: ANTS. ANTED exists as the pt. of ANTE; ANTING exists as a noun. | ant |
resembling an ANT. | antlike |
of or relating to bees. | apian |
of or relating to bees; (noun) a member of the bee family. | apiarian |
a wasp. | appledrain+ |
an insect that makes honey. | bee |
like a bee. | beelike |
a kind of sand-wasp: BEMBEXES, BEMBIXES. | bembex bembix |
any of a family of parasitic wasps. | braconid |
a large bee of the genus Bombus. | bumblebee |
a nest of wasps or wild bees; a swarm, throng; (verb) to swarm: BYKES, BYKING, BYKED. | byke |
any small parasitic insect of the family Chalcididae, that lay their eggs inside the bodies of other insects, or, as with the chalcid wasp, within the seeds of plants: CHALCIDS. [Gr chalkos, copper, from the metallic colouring of their bodies]. | chalcid |
an ant. | emmet |
a worker-like wingless male ant. | ergataner |
a worker ant, an undeveloped female. | ergate |
a worker-like wingless female ant. | ergatogyne |
resembling an ant; (verb) to crawl around like an ant: FORMICATES+, FORMICATING+, FORMICATED+. | formicate |
any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey. | honeybee |
a large kind of wasp. | hornet |
a hymenopterous insect with a stout ovipositor, aka wood wasp. | horntail |
a bumble-bee. | humblebee+ |
an order of insect having four membranous wings, e.g. ants, bees, wasps: HYMENOPTERONS or HYMENOPTERA; HYMENOPTERANS. | hymenopteran hymenopteron |
having four membranous wings, as do ants, bees and wasps. | hymenopterous |
a stinging ant. | kelep |
as in leafcutter ant. No -S. | leafcutter+ |
in the Caribbean, a social wasp; an ill-tempered woman: MARABUNTAS. | marabunta+ |
antlike. | myrmecoid |
a beaked white soldier ant. | nasute |
an ant. | pismire |
the wood ant, a large species which lives in nests made of pine needles or small twigs that often smell unpleasantly like urine. | pissant |
a spider-hunting wasp. | pompilid+ |
a South American leaf-cutter ant. [Port. s´uva f. Tupi ys´uwa]. | sauba |
a genus of insects including parasitic wasps: STYLOPES. | stylops+ |
a genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets. [L. vespa, wasp]. | vespa |
a social wasp. | vespid |
of wasps; wasp-like. | vespine |
wasp-like. | vespoid |
any of a large number of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptera: WASPS. | wasp |
(adv.) WASPY, like a wasp, waspish. | waspily |
the state of being WASPY: WASPINESSES. | waspiness+ |
like a wasp; acid-tongued: WASPISHLY. | waspish |
(adv.) WASPISH, like a wasp. | waspishly |
like a wasp. | wasplike |
like a wasp, waspish: WASPIER, WASPIEST; WASPILY. | waspy |