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Uncommonwasp
The correct spelling is wasp.
How to pronounce wasp
/wɒsp/
nounIPA: /wɒsp/
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The correct spelling is wasp. Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
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Definition
noun
- 1.Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
- 2.Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
- 3.A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
- 4.A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
- 5.A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
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