wasp
wasp (wäsp, wôsp)
noun
any of various families of winged hymenopteran insects, characterized by a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk, biting mouthparts, and, in the females and workers, a vicious sting that can be used repeatedly: some wasps, as the hornet, are characterized by a colonial or social organization
Etymology: ME waspe < OE wæsp, akin to Ger wespe < Gmc base *waps- < IE *wobhsā < base *webh-, to weave (in reference to the cocoonlike nest)
☆ WASP (wäsp, wôsp)
noun
a person who belongs to or is thought of as being part of a white, upper middle-class, northern European, Protestant group that dominates economic, political, and cultural activity in the U.S.: a term often used with mild derision
Etymology: W(hite) A(nglo-)S(axon) P(rotestant)
wasp
n.
Types of wasps include: common, fossorial, digging, digger, social, solitary, hunting, potter, paper, sand, wood, spider, mud, fig, gall, cuckoo, thread-waisted; (mud) dauber, yellow jacket, hornet;
Converse of object
- chew: She looks like she is chewing a wasp the whole time ).
Converse of subject
- sting: Apart from troubling your baby, they will be in danger of being stung by the wasp or infected by the fly.
Adjective modifier
- parasitic: However, parasitic wasps are quick to find the eggs.
- parasitoid: Can a parasitoid wasp or a virus enable the two moth species to co-exist?
- solitary: Occasionally recorded in the county, this is a small black solitary wasp nesting in dead wood in sunny situations.
- angry: So the rest of the day was spent trying to fell the trees whilst playing hide and seek with some very angry wasps!
- tiny: The tiny wasps are also a parasite to many kinds of caterpillars.
- yellow: A large black and yellow wasp nesting in large aggregations in sandy ground.
Modifies a noun
- sting: She showed us a " little " wasp sting on her arm.
- nest: Go out & knock down wasps nest with rake, feeling guilty.
- larva: Once hatched, the wasp larvae Squeeze a hormone trigger, Bringing into play A sequence of events.
- grub: I got talking to a guy who fishes wasp grubs.
- spider: Two female wasp spiders Argiope bruennichi were found on their webs in Latchford Meadow in late August.
Noun used with modifier
- spider-hunting: A medium-sized spider-hunting wasp found in a wide variety of situations.
- gall: All the invading gall wasp species in the UK are also native to the same region.
- ichneumon: This is similar to the repulsive reproductive cycle of the ichneumon wasp.
- cuckoo: A cuckoo wasp found in a variety of situations.
- digger: The macabre habits to which he referred are shared by their cousins the digger wasps.
- fig: A general web resource for research on figs and fig wasps is provided by the " Ficus server " .
Possessives
- nest: Wasps Active wasps ' nests in domestic premises can also be treated for a nominal charge.
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