Meaning of terebrant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Of an insect: that bores (“makes holes”); specifically, belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.
   not-comparable
2. Of pain: resembling the sensation of being bored into or pierced.
   not-comparable

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Examples

“The other terebrant hymenoptera feed in the same state either on larvæ, caterpillars particularly, of which they gnaw the interior, without attacking the essential principle of life at first, or on nymphs or eggs of insects, bodies in which they have been deposited under this last form by the mother.”

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