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vespine
[ ves-pahyn, -pin ]
adjective
- of or relating to wasps.
- resembling a wasp.
vespine
/ ˈvɛspaɪn /
adjective
- of, relating to, or resembling a wasp or wasps
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of vespine1
C19: from Latin vespa a wasp
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Example Sentences
He is no space marine fighting off a horde of vespine aliens, but, rather, a humble, pudge-faced engineer making his way through a massive spaceship for initial reasons no grander than repair.
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When the winter comes all the larvae are massacred, and the whole vespine city ends in a horrible tragedy.
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Let us return to Fabre's laboratory, to the covers of wire-gauze, and note what becomes, at the approach of winter, of the survivors of the vespine city.
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The bumblebee fly, that sanitary inspector of the Vespine city, fulfils a double office: she wipes the wasp's children and she rids the nest of its dead.
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