aculeate

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Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Stipites: the outer pair of forceps in male genitalia of aculeate Hymenoptera see sagittae.

From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by Smith, John. B.

Some fossors are subject to the depredations of cuckoos, just as the solitary bees are, but their cuckoos are rarely of aculeate origin.

From Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects by Saunders, Edward

Hymonoptera, large size of the cerebral ganglia in; classification of; sexual differences in the wings of; aculeate, relative size of the sexes of.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

Ovicells aculeate, with strong widely set spines, pyriform depressed.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John