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vespid

noun

Latin root: vespa Wiktionary

noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. More about vespid at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

  1. Mostly social nest-building wasps.

Origin

Borrowed from translingual Vespidae, equivalent to Latin vespa + -id.

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