hymenopterous insect

Questions about hymenopterous insect

What does hymenopterous insect mean?

hymenopterous insect means "insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing".

What is another word for hymenopterous insect?

Close synonyms include hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hymenopterous insect a common word?

hymenopterous insect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.