Wasp

noun

/wɒsp/

Word Frequency: 1.1

Definitions

1.nounAny of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

2.nounAny of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

3.nounA person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

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