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Wasp vs Polydnavirus - What's the difference?

wasp | polydnavirus |

As nouns the difference between wasp and polydnavirus

is that wasp is any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee or wasp can be a member of the dominant american upper-class culture, a white anglo-saxon protestant while polydnavirus is an insect virus of family polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.

wasp

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (referring to the insect's woven nests). Compare Dutch (m), German (m), Danish (m).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet or bee.
  • A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.
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    Etymology 2

    Originally an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the dominant American upper-class culture, a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

    • See also

    * cracker * honky

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    polydnavirus

    English

    (wikipedia polydnavirus)

    Noun

    (polydnaviruses)
  • An insect virus of family Polydnaviridae that integrates itself inside a wasp genome.
  • *{{quote-journal, 2009, date=February 13, Donald B. Stoltz & James B. Whitfield, VIROLOGY: Making Nice with Viruses, Science citation
    • , passage=Interestingly, a putative relationship between bracoviruses (one of the two major recognized polydnavirus lineages) and Oryctes rhinoceros virus was suggested about 30 years ago, on the basis of a remarkable structural resemblance. }}