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wasp/wɒsp/n. 1 a stinging often predatory insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. a social insect of the common genus Vespula, with black and yellow stripes and a very thin waist 黄蜂 2 (in comb. 用于复合词) any of various insects resembling a wasp in some way 黄蜂似的昆虫 wasp-beetle 蜂形天牛 □ wasplike adj.[Old English wœfs, wœps, wœsp from West Germanic: perhaps related to WEAVE1 (from the weblike form of its nest)] |