Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nest or colony of wasps.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hornets' nest; the habitation of social wasps; also, the colony or aggregate of wasps in such a nest. See
Vespa , and cut underwasp , and compareapiary and formicary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
nest built by asocial wasp species. - noun A
colony of wasps living in such a nest.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin vespa, wasp + (ap)iary.]
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From Latin vespa ("wasp") + -iary
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