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Any of various social vespid wasps, especially those in the genus Polistes, that build papery nests from chewed wood pulp.

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pa′per wasp`

any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance.

[1850–55.]

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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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