wasp
$ \mathrm{wasp} |wäsp|
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noun
1. a social winged insect that has a narrow waist and a sting. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects.
Family Vespidae, superfamily Vespoidea, order Hymenoptera:
〘虫〙 ジガバチ, スズメバチ.
e.g. several genera, in particular Vespula and Polistes.
2. a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds.
Several superfamilies in the sections Aculeata (digger wasps, mason wasps, and potter wasps) and Parasitica (parasitic wasps and gall wasps), order Hymenoptera.
DERIVATIVES
wasplike |-ˌlīk| adjective
ORIGIN
Old English wæfs, 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).
$ \mathrm{Wasp} |wäsp| (also WASP)
noun North American
an upper-class or middle-class American white Protestant, considered to be a member of the most powerful group in society.
DERIVATIVES
Waspish adjective
ORIGIN
1960s: acronym from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.