a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
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social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting
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Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[ae]ps, w[ae]fs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo["o]l.) 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}.
Note: 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 larv[ae] are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larv[ae] 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. See Illust. in Appendix.
{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 under {Mud}.
{Potter wasp}. See under {Potter}.
{Wasp fly}, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting.
A wasp that subdues mole crickets but does not sting people was the first.
Mr. Bowles had an eye for a fetching crocus: "I greatly admire a gourd-shaped Crocus," such as C. chrysanthus, with a real wasp waist.
On a previous visit there, I seriously thought the reason I was never troubled by a fly, wasp or mosquito was that insects did not dare interfere in this perfect little bucolic kingdom of mammon. How wrong I was.
A wasp no bigger than the dot of an "i" could play a big role in the fight against Lyme disease following its rediscovery by a victim of the ailment who was searching through old newspaper files.
When Gebhard first moved in (in 1946) he had to share a room with Kinsey's gall wasp specimens, piled in boxes nearly floor-to-ceiling.