Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various sawflies of the family Siricidae, having a spine at the end of the abdomen and, in the female, a long stout ovipositor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A terebrant hymenopterous insect of the family Uroceridæ; a tailed wasp: so called from the prominent horn at the end of the abdomen of the male. It is related to the saw-fly. See
Sirex and Urocerus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of family (
Uroceridæ ) of large hymenopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
wood wasp .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thanked her and got a glass and a mailing envelope and scooted the soi-disant pigeon horntail into captivity.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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I thanked her and got a glass and a mailing envelope and scooted the soi-disant pigeon horntail into captivity.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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Using the term 'wasp' in a broader sense, the horntail/great wood-wasp Urocerus gigas is certainly larger, and I think there are even larger species of parasitic wasps in other parts of Europe.
Heraclitean Fire 2010
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Using the term 'wasp' in a broader sense, the horntail/great wood-wasp Urocerus gigas is certainly larger, and I think there are even larger species of parasitic wasps in other parts of Europe.
Heraclitean Fire 2010
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Buckbeek, Aragod, horntail dragon, centaurs were represented very well (I know my spelling is bad).
Gryffindor Gazette 2009
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Buckbeek, Aragod, horntail dragon, centaurs were represented very well (I know my spelling is bad).
Gryffindor Gazette 2009
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