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chalcidology en · NOUN

Etymology

From chalcid + -ology.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The study of chalcid wasps.
    • This paper is dedicated to the doyen of chalcidology, Zdenek Bouček, in the year of his 81st birthday. 2005, Simon van Noort, Jean-Yves Rasplus, Revision of the Papua New Guinean fig wasp genus Robertsia Bouček (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Pteromalidae: Sycoecinae):
    • The publication of this CD-ROM catalogue marks an important step in the history of chalcidology. 1999 — Systematic Entomolgy (1999) 24, 301-304
    • The major milestone in Nearctic chalcidology during the latter half of the 20th century is perhaps the catalog by Peck 1997 — Gibson et al. Annotated Keys to the Genera of Nearctic Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) (NRC Research Press)