wasp
/wɒsp/noun
1
- a social winged insect which has a narrow waist and a sting and is typically yellow with black stripes. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects.群居性黄蜂。
1.1
- Family Vespidae, superfamily Vespoidea, order Hymenoptera: several genera, in particular Vespula and Polistes.胡蜂科, 胡蜂总科, 膜翅目：数属, 尤指小胡蜂属和马蜂属。
2
- a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds独居性黄蜂。
2.1
- Several superfamilies in the sections Aculeata (digger, mason, and potter wasps) and Parasitica (parasitic wasps and gall wasps), order Hymenoptera.针尾部（地蜂、红切叶蜂、陶蜂）和寄生部（寄生蜂、瘿蜂）中数总科, 膜翅目。
派生词
wasp-like
adjective词源
Old English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin， from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to WEAVE1（from the web-like form of its nest）.