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PAPER WASP

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Dictionary entry overview: What does paper wasp mean?

• PAPER WASP (noun)
The noun PAPER WASP has 1 sense:

1. any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper

Familiarity information: PAPER WASP used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PAPER WASP (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("paper wasp" is a kind of...):

vespid; vespid wasp (mostly social nest-building wasps)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "paper wasp"):

Polistes annularis (a variety of paper wasp)

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