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J Ants Bees Wasps
Biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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