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 under wasp, and compare apiary 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 a social 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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