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solitary wasp

solitary wasp noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see solitary, wasp.

Noun

solitary wasp (plural solitary wasps)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see solitary, wasp.
  2. (dated) An informal taxonomic grouping of genera of wasps that included most of those with solitary habits.
    • In the principal species of the Solitary Wasps, the insect is smaller than the working wasp of the social kind.1824, Oliver Goldsmith, A history of the earth, and animated nature, volume 5, pages 156–7
    • The Solitary Wasps usually make their nests of clay or agglutinated sand, generally attaching them to walls and palings; a few also burrow in sandy ground.1860, William Somerville Orr, Richard Owen, Robert Gordon Latham, Organic Nature: Botany, structural and systematic, page 395

Forms of solitary wasp

pluralsolitary wasps

Questions about solitary wasp

What does solitary wasp mean?
Solitary wasp means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see solitary, wasp.
What part of speech is solitary wasp?
Solitary wasp is a noun.
What is the plural of solitary wasp?
The plural of solitary wasp is solitary wasps.

Words near solitary wasp in the dictionary

  1. solitary sandpipers
  2. solitary snipe
  3. solitary tinamou
  4. solitary tinamous
  5. solitary vice
  6. solitary wasp
  7. solitary wasps
  8. solitary wave
  9. solitary waves
  10. soliterraneous
  11. solithromycin

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