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WASP
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wasp [wɒsp, Am wɑ:sp] N

wasp

WASP [wɒsp, Am wɑ:sp] N Am pej

WASP abbreviation of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

wasp's nest N

wasp waist N

wasp waist

wasp-waisted ADJ

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The long ovipositor is pierced through the fig wall to infect the fig wasp larvae during their development inside the flower galls.
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They attach themselves firmly to olive trees and reduce the quality of the fruit; their main predators are wasps.
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It's just the way the brain processes the image of a face, and it turns out that these paper wasps do the same thing.
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Differences between various kinds of hunting wasps provide convenient illustrations.
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Legs are short and feeble while the fore wings are not folded longitudinally as occurs in polistine and vespine wasps.
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