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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of horntails, typical of the family Uroceridæ, and distinguished by the exserted ovipositor, short neck, and fore wings with two marginal and three submarginal cells. They are sometimes called
tailed wasps. Sirex (Linnæus, 1767) is a synonym.
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