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Definitions of wasp in various dictionaries:
noun - a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
noun - social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
Any of numerous social or solitary insects, chiefly of the superfamilies Vespoidea and Sphecoidea, having a slender body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, mouths adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor often modified as a sting.
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To have this insect's waist means to have a slender waistline |
The potter, a solitary species of this insect, hunts only caterpillars |
The New York Times has called George H.W. Bush an exemplar of this "leadership class", an acronym |
It builds its nests out of paper fibers made from bark which it mixes with its own saliva |
This insect is also an acronym for a member of the Caucasian upper middle class |
Of an artist, a fish, or a wasp, it's what a mud dauber is |
The name of this social insect comes from the Latin word vespa |
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Wasp, Farah, AFGHANISTAN |
Wasp, TENNESSEE, UNITED STATES |
Wasp, WEST VIRGINIA, UNITED STATES |
Wasp description |
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A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant. The Apocrita have a common evolutionary ancestor and form a clade; wasps as a group do not form a clade, but are paraphyletic with respect to bees and ants. * The most commonly known wasps, such as yellowjackets and hornets, are in the family Vespidae and are eusocial, living together in a nest with an egg-laying queen and non-reproducing workers. Eusociality is favoured by the unusual haplodiploid system of sex determination in Hymenoptera, as it makes sisters exceptionally closely related to each other. However, the majority of wasp species are solitary, with each adult female living and breeding independently. Wasps play many ecological roles. Some are predators or pollinators, whether to feed themselves or to provision their nests. Many, notably the cuckoo wasps, are kleptoparasites, laying eggs in the nests of other wasps. Many of the solitary wasps are parasitoidal, meaning they la |