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n. 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.

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

n. A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

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

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.

n. Any one of several families, many genera, and very numerous species of aculeate hymenopterous insects, whose wings fold lengthwise in a peculiar manner when the insects rest, which insects are hence collectively called Diploptera.

n. Figuratively, a person characterized by ill nature, petulance, peevishness, irritability, or petty malignity.

n. social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

n. a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

"The omitted chapter introduced a wasp, in the character of a judge or barrister, I suppose, since Mr. Tenniel wrote that "a _wasp_ in a _wig_ is altogether beyond the appliances of art.""

white person    Protestant    white    Caucasian   

tailed wasps    thread-waisted wasp    wasp's-nest boil    great-tailed wasp    white-faced wasp    parasitic wasps    golden wasp    cracker    honky   

yellow jackets   

hornet    scorpion    termite    grasshopper    earthworm    ant    locust    mosquito    gnat    beetle