wood wasp — noun 1. : horntail 2. : a European wasp (Vespa sylvestris) that builds its nest in trees 3. : any of various solitary wasps that excavate galleries in decaying wood * * * wood wasp noun A large hymenopterous insect (genus Sirex) that bores wood… … Useful english dictionary
wood wasp — ▪ insect primitive insect belonging to any of three families in the suborder Symphyta (order Hymenoptera): Xiphydriidae, Orussidae (sometimes spelled Oryssidae), and Anaxyelidae. Orussidae are known as parasitic wood wasps; Anaxyelidae are… … Universalium
Wasp — Taxobox name = Wasp image width = 180px image caption = Aleiodes indiscretus parasitizing a gypsy moth caterpillar regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subdivision ranks = Suborder subdivision = Apocrita See… … Wikipedia
WASP — /wosp/, Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. n. 1. a white Anglo Saxon Protestant. 2. a member of the privileged, established white upper middle class in the U.S. adj. 3. Waspy. Also, Wasp. [1955 60] /wosp/, n. a member of the Women s Air Force… … Universalium
wasp — wasplike, adj. /wosp/, n. 1. any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterous insects of the Vespidae, Sphecidae, and allied families, generally having a long, slender body and narrow waist and, in the female, a stinger. 2. a person who is… … Universalium
wasp — (Roget s IV) n. Types of wasps include: common, fossorial, digging, digger, social, solitary, hunting, potter, paper, sand, wood, spider, mud, fig, gall, cuckoo, thread waisted; (mud) dauber, yellow jacket, hornet; see also bee 1 … English dictionary for students
wasp — noun 1》 a social insect with a narrow waisted, typically black and yellow striped body, which carries a sting and builds elaborate nests from wood pulp. [Vespula, Polistes, and other genera.] 2》 a hymenopterous insect of a large group resembling… … English new terms dictionary
Sirex wasp — /ˌsaɪrəks ˈwɒsp/ (say .suyruhks wosp) noun a wood wasp, Sirex noctilio, accidentally imported into Australia and once a threat to the softwood industry but now largely controlled by a parasitic nematode introduced by the CSIRO …
Common wasp — Taxobox name = Common wasp image width = 250px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Apocrita familia = Vespidae genus = Vespula subgenus = (Paravespula) species = V. vulgaris binomial = Vespula… … Wikipedia
Potter wasp — Potter wasps Eumenes coarctatus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia … Wikipedia
