Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
ground-hor net .
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A ground-wasp deposits its eggs in a small burrow in which it places also a caterpillar or a grasshopper paralyzed by stinging, so that when the larva is hatched from an egg it finds an ample supply of fresh food provided by a complex series of its mother's acts that seem to be directed by conscious maternal solicitude.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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A mechanism produced by nature's methods, the ground-wasp behaves as it is capable of working with its inherited structure and its inherited instinctive powers of coördination and sensation.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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