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

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)