aculeate

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Sagittae: the inner pair of forceps in male genitalia of aculeate Hymenoptera: see stipites.

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

For none, however socially or financially powerful, was safe from the stab of that aculeate pen, the venom of whose ink is to gleam vividly from the pages of literature for centuries yet to come.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah