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   wasp

   /wɒsp/

   noun

   • 1. a social winged insect which has a narrow waist and a sting and is typically yellow with black stripes. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects.
   • 2. a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds.

   Word Origin Old Englishwæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to weave1 (from the weblike form of its nest).

   Derivatives

   • 1. wasplike adjective

   Scrabble Points: 9

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   • A

     1

   • S

     1

   • P

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