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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of insects, type of the order Rhipiptera or Strcpsiptera, and now of the coleopterous family Stylopidæ.
- noun [lowercase] An insect of this genus; a rhipipter or strepsipter.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of minute insects parasitic, in their larval state, on bees and wasps. It is the typical genus of the group Strepsiptera, formerly considered a distinct order, but now generally referred to the Coleoptera. See
strepsiptera .
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