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SPHECIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sphecidae mean?
• SPHECIDAE (noun)
The noun SPHECIDAE has 1 sense:
1. mud daubers; some digger wasps
Familiarity information: SPHECIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mud daubers; some digger wasps
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Sphecidae; Sphecidae
Hypernyms ("Sphecidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "Sphecidae"):
genus Sceliphron; Sceliphron (mud daubers)
mud dauber (wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae)
Holonyms ("Sphecidae" is a member of...):
Sphecoidea; superfamily Sphecoidea (families Sphecidae and Stizidae)
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