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wasp's nest

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Noun1.wasp's nest - habitation for wasps or hornetswasp's nest - habitation for wasps or hornets      
wasps' nest, hornet's nest, hornets' nest
nidus - a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
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The whole house had something of an egg shape; and it half hung, half stood in that steep, hillside thicket, like a wasp's nest in a green hawthorn.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed wasp's nest to the hill-side, and at eight o'clock in the morning departed.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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