Dictionary Entry
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
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Common Phrases
. waspstings waspwasp parasiticwasp diggerwasp femalewasp paper
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Poetry examples for “wasp”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Stops, and turns, and must
Look down at it like a wasp at the muslined peach.
Read full poem →The haughty thistle oer all danger towers,
In every place the very wasp of flowers.
Read full poem →Marvelling they stood, and watched the long grass swirled
By the May breeze, murmurous with wasp and midge,
For though the summer oozed into their veins