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Meanings of wasp in English

Portuguese
wasp
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Anti-submarine helicopter family by Westland Helicopters.

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      Russian
      pratt & whitney wasp
      Portuguese
      pratt & whitney wasp
      Spanish
      serie wasp de pratt & whitney
      Wikidata

      Aircraft engine brand.

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            pratt & whitney wasp
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            Examples for "westland wasp"
            Examples for "westland wasp"
            1
            The blimp, as already stated, is a sea scout.
            Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
            2
            A Sea Scout's blue sweatshirt showed a body-conscious cut, combined with comfort.
            The Guardian
            3
            She could raid a Sea Scout encampment, out of sheer spite.
            Girl out back
            4
            A Sea Scout named Paul Siple was chosen.
            The new yorker
            5
            My daughter and I just joined sea scouts.
            The Irish Times
            Russian
            осы
            Portuguese
            vespa
            Spanish
            avispa
            Catalan
            vespa
            Wikidata

            A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps but are in a separate suborder.

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                  осы
                  Spanish
                  wasp

                  Ultralight aircraft by Australian Aircraft Kits.

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                        wasp
                        Usage of wasp in English
                        1
                        Researchers believe a recently-discovered mite may help end the country's wasp problem.
                        Radio NZ
                        2
                        Various options for combat wasp salvo attack formations skipped through her mind.
                        The Neutronium Alchemist
                        3
                        The combs were arranged precisely similar to those of the common wasp.
                        Our Common Insects / A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fie...
                        4
                        The wasp is something like the fly in shape, only much larger.
                        Chambers's Elementary Science Readers / Book I
                        5
                        Even the fate of the poor wasp scarcely interested Judy at present.
                        A Young Mutineer
                        6
                        The wasp will become their moral ideal, whose virtues they must copy.
                        Health and Education
                        7
                        Mosquitoes and flies are everywhere, and the wasp and wild bee also.
                        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
                        8
                        A wasp is a very pretty insect, black and yellow in colour.
                        Chambers's Elementary Science Readers / Book I
                        9
                        It's as alien as a parasitic wasp seen under an electron microscope.
                        The Rhesus Chart
                        10
                        The adults are wasp-like insects about a half-inch long and very active.
                        One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered
                        11
                        To begin with, Payt had the organizational skills of a mud wasp.
                        Mom over miami
                        12
                        It followed some tufas up to a large wasp's nest and then-blank
                        Rock and Ice Magazine
                        13
                        Well, this is very queer, but not so dreadful as the wasp.
                        The Louisa Alcott Reader: a Supplementary Reader for the Fourth ...
                        14
                        Jenny screamed as the wasp streaked toward them, but she didn't run.
                        Phantoms
                        15
                        Astonishing nonsense is often spoken of the sand wasp's knowledge of anatomy.
                        Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
                        16
                        The sword pierced easily, as if he had struck a wasp's nest.
                        Worldwinder
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                        Translations for wasp
                        Catalan
                        vespawasp
                        Wasp through the time
                        Wasp across language varieties
                        New Zealand
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                        United Kingdom
                        Less common
                        United States of America
                        Less common