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    VESPULA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social waspsplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Vespula; Vespula

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("Vespula" is a kind of...):

    arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)

    Meronyms (members of "Vespula"):

    common wasp; Vespula vulgaris (a variety of vespid wasp)

    Vespula maculifrons; yellow hornet; yellow jacket (small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground)

    Holonyms ("Vespula" is a member of...):

    family Vespidae; Vespidae (an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps)

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