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Wasp vs Woodwasp - What's the difference?

wasp | woodwasp |

As nouns the difference between wasp and woodwasp

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 woodwasp is any of various unrelated insects of the suborder symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.

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.

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    * cracker * honky

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    woodwasp

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wood wasp

    Noun

    (Wood wasp) (en noun)
  • Any of various unrelated insects of the suborder Symphyta (the sawflies, not true wasps), whose larvae are found in wood.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=April 23, author=The Associated Press, title=Albany: Pine-Killing Wasp Monitored, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The Sirex woodwasp kills pines and sometimes other conifers by introducing a toxic mucus and fungus when the female lays her eggs through the bark and into the sapwood. }}

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