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Definition of Hellgrammite
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hellgrammite
Literary usage of Hellgrammite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1901)
"She may have seen a dragon fly ; she certainly never saw a hellgrammite to know it.
Then we learn something about the locusts, and most interesting, ..."
2. California for the Sportsman: Being a Collection of Hints as to the Haunts by Al M. Cumming, Allan Dunn, Southern Pacific Company (1911)
"Fishing is good near the Springs from about the middle up to the close of the
season. hatching of the flies the hellgrammite is beyond question the best ..."
3. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"The most familiar American example of this group is the so-called hellgrammite
fly, some account of which is given in the following paragraphs. ..."
4. The American Entomologist edited by Benjamin Dann Walsh, Charles V Riley, George Vasey (1868)
"... and has similar habits to that of the hellgrammite Fly. ... which enable the
larva of the hellgrammite Fly to live permanently under water. ..."
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