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单词 media wasp
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media waspn.

Brit. /ˈmiːdɪə wɒsp/, U.S. /ˈmidiə ˌwɑsp/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin media , wasp n.1
Etymology: < scientific Latin media (specific name of Dolichovespula media: see medium n.) + wasp n.1 Compare earlier median wasp n. at median n.2 and adj.2 Compounds.The wasp was originally described in French by C. De Geer (1771, Mém. hist. insect. II. i. 790) as frelon moyen, so called as being smaller than the hornet or frelon grand ( Vespa crabro). The name was Latinized by A. Retzius as Vespa Crabro medius (1783, Caroli De Geer Genera et Species Insectorum 63), and appeared in M. Olivier's Encycl. méth. (1791) VI. 679/1 as Vespa media.
A large tree-nesting social wasp, Dolichovespula media, native to continental Europe, which became established in Britain in the 1980s. Also called euro-wasp.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > miscellaneous types
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1993 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 12 Dec. 80 Dolichovespula media—the media wasp as it is affectionately known—was first recorded here in 1981 in the extreme south west.
1998 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 22 July Aggressive French wasps that can grow to an inch-and-a-half long and deliver a severe sting are establishing themselves in growing numbers in Britain... East Anglia has been worst hit by an upsurge of the insect, which is known both as the media wasp and euro wasp.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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