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"WASPS" is a plural of: wasp. |
Date "WASPS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Any of numerous winged hymenopterous insects of social as well as solitary habits and having formidable stings. (references) |
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Synonym: WASPSSynonym: Hornets. (additional references) |
Crosswords: WASPS |
| English words defined with "WASPS": Amphibolips, Andricus, Arrenotokous ♦ Cynips ♦ Digger wasp ♦ Eumenes ♦ family Sphecidae, family Vespidae, Fossores ♦ genus Amphibolips, genus Andricus, genus Cynips, genus Eumenes, genus Vespula ♦ hornet's nest, Hymenoptera ♦ mantispid, mason wasp ♦ order Hymenoptera ♦ paper wasp, potter wasp ♦ Rubytail ♦ Sphecidae, sphecoid, sphecoid wasp, Sphex, Strepsiptera, Stylops ♦ vespid, vespid wasp, Vespidae, Vespula ♦ wasp's nest ♦ Yellow jacket. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "WASPS": CALATHEA ALLOUIA, CALATOLA, cynipid ♦ FIG CAPRIFIER ♦ Wasp. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Wasps (1997) Yellow Wasps (1995) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Trichogramma wasps are packaged in shipping capsules for later release in corn fields. Bags are color-coded according to insect maturity to help researchers determine optimum release dates. Credit: USDA ARS News. |  | Biosteres arisanus wasps inject their eggs into oriental fruit fly eggs. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Jonathan Swift | Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Biological control with fungi, parasitic nematodes, and parasitic wasps may play alternate roles in integrated tick control efforts. (references) | |
Scientists are also pursuing biological control of deer ticks by introducing tiny stingerless wasps, which feed on immature ticks, into tick-infested areas. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "WASPS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 77.56% of the time. "WASPS" is used about 303 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 77.56% | 235 | 19,568 |
| Noun (proper) | 19.8% | 60 | 43,597 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 2.64% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 303 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "WASPS": wasps nest. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "WASPS": fig-wasps. | |
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| Language | Translations for "WASPS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Wespen. (various references) | ||||||||||
Greek | σφηκοφωλιά (hornet's nest, wasps nest). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | mindenféle bogara van (he has his head full of wasps). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | aspsway avispas. (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"WASPS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: awsp, Wapc, wapse, washs, waspe, waspy, wass, wispys, wuss. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "WASPS" (pronounced wÄ"sps) |
| 3 | -s p s | gasps, grasps, rasps. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: swaps. | |
| Words within the letters "a-p-s-s-w" | |
-1 letter: asps, pass, paws, saps, saws, spas, swap, waps, wasp. | |
-2 letters: asp, ass, pas, paw, sap, saw, spa, wap, was. | |
-3 letters: as, aw, pa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-p-s-s-w" | |
+1 letter: pshaws, spawns, swamps. | |
+2 letters: pesewas, pitsaws, psywars, ripsaws, sprawls, washups, waspish. | |
+3 letters: catspaws, password, sapwoods, shipways, slipways, snowcaps, sparrows, spawners, stewpans, swampers, swampish, swanpans, swappers, wampuses, warships, waspiest, whipsaws. | |
+4 letters: newspeaks, passwords, pawnshops, prewashes, shwanpans, slipwares, snapweeds, snowpacks, snowscape, soapworts, southpaws, spanworms, speedways, spillways, sprawlers, swampiest, sweatshop, wampishes, wardships, waspishly, wingspans. | |
+5 letters: expressway, newspapers, passageway, pastedowns, phasedowns, pipsissewa, plowshares, showplaces, sleepwalks, snowscapes, spacewalks, spadeworks, spearworts, splashdown, sportswear, sprawliest, superwaves, swampiness, swamplands, sweatpants, sweatshops, sweepbacks, sweepstake, swoopstake, swordplays, townscapes, upwardness, waveshapes, weaponless, whiplashes. | |
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