gynecaner

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gynecaner also gynaecaner (noun; Greek gynaiko, womanly; aner, male): (Arthropoda: Insecta) In Hymenoptera, a male ant of certain parasitic and workerless genera that resembles a female rather than a worker, but having the same number of antennal joints and according to the genus may be wingless; a gynaecomorphic male.