wasp
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
WASP
n 1: a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a
Protestant denomination [syn: {WASP}, {white Anglo-Saxon
Protestant}]
2: social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender
body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a
formidable sting
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.] (Zool.)
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}.
[1913 Webster]
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 larvae are
reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and
insect larvae 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.
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{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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "WASP":
American Indian, Amerind, Australian aborigine, Bushman, Caucasian,
Indian, Malayan, Mister Charley, Mongolian, Negrillo, Negrito,
Negro, Oriental, Red Indian, black, black man, blackfellow, boy,
brown man, burrhead, colored person, coon, darky, gook, honky,
jigaboo, jungle bunny, nigger, niggra, ofay, paleface, pygmy,
red man, redskin, slant-eye, spade, the Man, white, white man,
whitey, yellow man
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