Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gold wasp or cuckoofly of the hymenopterous family Chrysididæ, as Chrysis ignita, having the abdomen of a ruby color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A European gold wasp (
Chrysis ignita ) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
European wasp , Chrysis ignita, with a bright redunderside of theabdomen .
Etymologies
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ruby + tail
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