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Vespa   Listen
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Vespa  n.  (Zool.) A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vespa" Quotes from Famous Books



... Spider-huntress is the Ringed Pompilus (Calicurgus annulatus, FAB.), clad in black and yellow. She stands high on her legs; and her wings have black tips, the rest being yellow, as though exposed to smoke, like a bloater. Her size is about that of the Hornet (Vespa crabro). She is rare. I see three or four of her in the course of the year; and I never fail to halt in the presence of the proud insect, rapidly striding through the dust of the fields when the ...
— More Hunting Wasps • J. Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Vespa" :   arthropod genus, Vespa crabro



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