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Euro-wasp

Euro-wasp is the alternative spelling of Euro wasp.

Meaning of Euro wasp

Noun

Euro wasp (plural Euro wasps)

  1. (UK) A median wasp (Dolichovespula media), an aggressive European wasp, which spread from the continent to Britain in 1980s.
    • The debate over greater European integration took an unexpected twist yesterday with the arrival of Euro wasp in Britain.2001 May 26, Stewart Payne, “Alarm over invasion of the Euro wasps”, in Telegraph (online)

Forms of Euro-wasp

pluralEuro-wasps

Questions about Euro-wasp

What is Euro-wasp the alternative spelling of?
Euro-wasp is the alternative spelling of Euro wasp.

Words near Euro-wasp in the dictionary

  1. Euro-skeptic
  2. Euro-skeptical
  3. Euro-skepticism
  4. Euro-skeptics
  5. Euro-speak
  6. Euro-wasp
  7. Euro-wasps
  8. Euroa
  9. Euroafrican
  10. Euroafricans
  11. Euroamerican

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Euro-wasp (page history and authors); Euro wasp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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