| 单词 | mason wasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmason wasp mason wasp n. [compare French guêpe maçonne] any of various solitary wasps of the subfamily Eumeninae (family Vespidae), esp. of the genera Odynerus and Pseudepipona, which lay eggs in hard cells made out of clay, earth, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > member of family Eumenidae mason fly1750 mason wasp1815 potter wasp1848 wall-wasp1881 1792 M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 73 The free mason wasp is so domestic as to build its nest, which is made of mud or clay, in the inhabited chambers of houses.] 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1818) I. 449 One species called by Reaumur the mason-wasp (Odynerus muraria, Latr.). 1894 Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 9 27 Alastor eriurgus, a very common ‘mason wasp’ in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 1994 P. J. Gullan & P. S. Cranston Insects xi. 294 In some subsocial nesters, many individuals of one species may aggregate, building their nests close together as in mason wasps (Eumeninae). < as lemmas |
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