aculeate

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Aculeate: prickly; armed with short, sharp spines; specifically, in Hymenoptera furnished with a sting which is a modified ovipositor and connected with a poison sac.

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

This is also the case in the Aculeate Hymenoptera when the reproductive organs have been 735 destroyed by the parasite Stylops.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various

Aculeate, armed with prickles, i. e. aculei; as the Rose and Brier.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

This has been found to be the case in insects so widely different as Orthoptera and Aculeate Hymenoptera.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various