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marabunta|mærəˈbʌntə|
[Native name.]
In Guyana, a name used for several social wasps. Also attrib.
1883E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians Guiana v. 150 The wasps vary much more in general appearance and size, some of them being large and beautifully coloured insects. The forest-dwelling social species are indiscriminately called by the colonists marabuntas. 1898H. Kirke 25 Yrs. Brit. Guiana iii. 76 A large brown wasp, called a marabunta, builds his pretty paper combs under the eaves and galleries of our houses; his sting is severe. 1918C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) iv. 81, I listened to the buzzing of a marabunta wasp. 1934E. Waugh Handful of Dust v. 267 A marabunta had left a painful swelling on his left hand. 1958J. Carew Black Midas i. 12 Marabuntas built clay nests in the thatch. Ibid. vi. 141 Tonic and Woody Sam removed spiders, cobwebs, marabunta nests..from the roof. |