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Definition of Wasp

1. Noun. A white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination.

2. Noun. Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting.

Definition of Wasp

1. n. Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

2. n. Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Definition of Wasp

1. Noun. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee. ¹

2. Noun. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish. ¹

3. Noun. A member of the dominant American upper-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Wasp

1. a stinging insect [n -S] : WASPISH, WASPLIKE [adj]

Medical Definition of Wasp

1. Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, especially. Any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets. The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering. The larvae are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larvae brought to them by the adults, but the latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers, and on the sweet juices of fruit. Digger wasp, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the ground, as the sand wasps. See Sand wasp, under Sand. Mud wasp. See Mud. Potter wasp. See Potter. Wasp fly, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting. Origin: OE. Waspe, AS. Waeps, waefs; akin to D. Wesp, G. Wespe, OHG. Wafsa, wefsa, Lith. Vapsa gadfly, Russ. Osa wasp, L. Vespa, and perhaps to E. Weave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Wasp

washtubs washup washups washwipe washwipes washwoman washwomen washy wasite wasium

wasm wasms wasn't wasnae wasp (current term) wasp's nest wasp-waisted wasp spider wasp stings wasp venoms

wasp waist waspdom wasphood waspie waspier waspies waspiest waspily waspiness

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