ichneumon

How To Use ichneumon In A Sentence

• For him, the fiend that shook his faith was the ichneumon wasp, which lays its eggs inside the larvae of the horntail wasp.
• African cibet and the Chinese and Indian zibet, yield), including the hyaena civet from the Cape of Good Hope: genets and ichneumons, which will be found on the lower shelves; and the Mexican house-marten. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
• Were there any truth in the tale as regards the mongoos, it would be difficult to understand, why other creatures, such as the secretary bird and the falcon, which equally destroy serpents, should be left defenceless, and the ichneumon alone provided with a prophylactic. Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
• They belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and ichneumons.
• They belong to the order Hymenoptera, which includes bees, wasps, sawflies, and ichneumons.
• The introduction of the Indian mongoos, or _mangouste_ (ichneumon), proved futile as a means of repressing the evil. Two Years in the French West Indies
• The Egyptian ichneumon, when it sees the serpent called the asp, does not attack it until it has called in other ichneumons to help; to meet the blows and bites of their enemy the assailants beplaster themselves with mud, by first soaking in the river and then rolling on the ground. The History of Animals
• The Persians did not worship wood and stone with the Greeks, nor the ibis and ichneumon with the Egyptians.
• There is a curious creature, called the quash, resembling the ichneumon, which possesses a peculiarly fetid smell, and is known for its powerful, lacerating teeth. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America
• This is consistent with recent studies on chrysomelid beetles and ichneumonoid Hymenoptera and may reflect a highly conserved structure across Holometabola.