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paper wasp

n.

Any of various social wasps, such as the hornet, that build papery nests from chewed wood pulp.

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paper wasp

paper wasp - any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like paper

vespid, vespid wasp - mostly social nest-building wasps

Polistes annularis - a variety of paper wasp

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