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VESPIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vespidae mean? 

VESPIDAE (noun)
  The noun VESPIDAE has 1 sense:

1. an arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason waspsplay

  Familiarity information: VESPIDAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


VESPIDAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An arthropod family of the order Hymenoptera including: yellow jackets; hornets; mason wasps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Vespidae; Vespidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Vespidae"):

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

genus Vespa; Vespa (type genus of the Vespidae: various hornets and yellow jackets)

genus Vespula; Vespula (sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps)

genus Polistes; Polistes (a genus of Vespidae)

Eumenes; genus Eumenes (mason wasps)

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

Hymenoptera; order Hymenoptera (an order of insects including: bees; wasps; ants; ichneumons; sawflies; gall wasps; etc.)


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