DIGGER WASP

Meaning of DIGGER WASP in English

■ noun a solitary wasp which excavates a burrow, filling it with paralysed insects or spiders for its larvae to feed on. [Families Sphecidae and Pompilidae: many species.]

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DIGGER WASP — noun Date: 1880 a burrowing wasp
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
DIGGER WASP — noun : a burrowing wasp ; specifically : any of numerous usually solitary wasps chiefly of the superfamily Sphecoidea that …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIGGER WASP — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIGGER WASP — any of the recluse burrowing wasps that excavate nests in the ground and store in them insects that they paralyzed …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
DIGGER WASP — Date: 1880 : a burrowing wasp ; especially : any of numerous usually solitary wasps (superfamily Sphecoidea) that dig nest …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIGGER WASP — Function: noun Date: 1880 : a burrowing wasp especially : any of numerous usually solitary wasps (superfamily Sphecoidea) that dig …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
DIGGER WASP — [digger wasp] n (1880): a burrowing wasp; esp: a usu. solitary wasp (superfamily Sphecoidea) that digs nest burrows in the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
DIGGER-WASP — сущ. земляная оса n земляная оса digger-wasp земляная оса
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DIGGER-WASP — _n. земляная оса
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
DIGGER-WASP — земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
DIGGER WASP — земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
DIGGER WASP — земляная оса
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
DIGGER WASP — земляная оса
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
DIGGER-WASP — сущ. земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
DIGGER-WASP — сущ. земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
DIGGER-WASP — _n. земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - 24 редакция
DIGGER-WASP — n. земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера - редакция bed
DIGGER-WASP — земляная оса
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
DIGGER WASP — земляная оса
Англо-Русский дополнительный словарь
DIGGER-WASP — _n. земляная оса
Англо-Русский словарь Мюллера
DIGGER-WASP — сущ. земляная оса n земляная оса digger-wasp земляная оса
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
WASP — or Wasp noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: white Anglo-Saxon Protestant Date: 1957 an American of Northern European and especially British …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
WASP — I. ˈwäsp, ˈwȯsp noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English waspe, from Old English wæps, wæfs, wæsp; akin to Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DIGGER — ˈdigə(r) noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from diggen to dig + -er 1. : one that digs in …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
WASP — /wosp/ , Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. n. 1. a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. 2. a member of the privileged, established white …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIGGER — /dig"euhr/ , n. 1. a person or an animal that digs. 2. a tool, part of a machine, etc., for …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DIGGER — n. Digger Indian, American Indian that dug roots for food (Offensive); Puritan that promoted socialist practices in 17th-century England
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
WASP — see WASP
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WASP — or Wasp ˈwäsp, ˈwȯsp Usage: often attributive Etymology: w hite A nglo- S axon P rotestant Date: 1957 sometimes disparaging …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
WASP — noun Etymology: Middle English waspe, from Old English wæps, wæsp; akin to Old High German wafsa wasp, Latin vespa wasp …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DIGGER — ■ noun 1》 a person, animal, or large machine that digs earth. 2》 ( Digger ) a member of a …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WASP — (also WASP ) ■ noun N. Amer. an upper- or middle-class North American white Protestant, regarded as a member of …
Concise Oxford English vocab
WASP — [wasp] n [ME waspe, fr. OE waeps, waesp; akin to OHG wafsa wasp, L vespa wasp] (bef. 12c) 1: any …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
WASP — any stinging member (formerly called Aculeata) of the insect suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), other than bees and ants, as well …
Britannica English vocabulary
WASP — wasp, WASP, Wasp BrE AmE wɒsp AmE wɑːsp ▷ wasps, WASPs, Wasps wɒsps AmE wɑːsps
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
DIGGER — digger, D~ BrE AmE ˈdɪɡ ə AmE - ə r ▷ digger|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
WASP — / wɒsp; NAmE wɑːsp; wɔːsp/ noun a black and yellow flying insect that can sting : a wasp sting a …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WASP — ➡ Wasp
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WASP — (also WASP ) / wɒsp; NAmE wɑːsp; wɔːsp/ noun ( especially NAmE , usually disapproving ) the abbreviation for 'White …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIGGER — / ˈdɪgə(r); NAmE / noun 1. a large machine that is used for digging up the ground 2. a person …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WASP — WASP /wɒsp $ wɑːsp, wɒːsp/ BrE AmE noun [countable] American English (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) an American whose family was originally …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WASP — wasp /wɒsp $ wɑːsp, wɒːsp/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: wæps , wæsp ] a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DIGGER — dig ‧ ger /ˈdɪɡə $ -ər/ BrE AmE noun [countable] a large machine that digs and moves earth ⇨ ↑ …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WASP — n. 1 a stinging often flesh-eating insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. the common social wasp Vespa vulgaris, with black …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
DIGGER — n. 1 a person or machine that digs, esp. a mechanical excavator. 2 a miner, esp. a gold-digger. 3 colloq. …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
WASP — n. 1 a stinging often flesh-eating insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. the common social wasp Vespa vulgaris, with black …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
DIGGER — n. 1 a person or machine that digs, esp. a mechanical excavator. 2 a miner, esp. a gold-digger. 3 colloq. …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
WASP — n.1 a stinging often flesh-eating insect of the order Hymenoptera, esp. the common social wasp Vespa vulgaris, with black and …
Oxford English vocab
DIGGER — n.1 a person or machine that digs, esp. a mechanical excavator. 2 a miner, esp. a gold-digger. 3 colloq. an …
Oxford English vocab
WASP — ( WASPs) WASP is used to refer to the people in American society whose ancestors came from northern Europe, especially …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DIGGER — ( diggers) A digger is a machine that is used for digging. ...a mechanical digger. N-COUNT
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
WASP — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He had long sympathized with liberal causes and felt uncomfortable at the privileges his WASP …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WASP — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a wasps'/hornets' nest ▪ a wasps' nest in the attic EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adult …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DIGGER — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gold digger COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE mechanical ▪ Read in studio Thieves have used …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WASP — (INSECT) [noun] [C] - a black and yellow flying insect which can sting youKeep still - there's a wasp near …
Cambridge English vocab
DIGGER — [noun] [C]A digger is a machine used for digging, or sometimes a person who digs.a mechanical diggerSee picture: Building and …
Cambridge English vocab
WASP — (PERSON), Wasp [noun] [C] [esp. US] [disapproving] - White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (= a white American whose family originally came from …
Cambridge English vocab
DIGGER — A guy doing the groundwork with the laidez. Example: That guy has been talking to Felicity all night. What a …
Slang English vocab
WASP — noun WASP + VERB ▪ crawl , fly ▪ sting sb ▪ buzz WASP + NOUN ▪ sting ▪ nest …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DIGGER — n (coU) gold-digger q.v.
Dirty English-Russian vocab
WASP — White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Don's a WASP and I'm a WASP, but we have different beliefs.
English Idioms vocab
WASP — White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Don's a WASP and I'm a WASP, but we have different beliefs.
English Idioms vocabulary
DIGGER — сущ. 1) профессия а) землекоп, рабочий, выполняющий земляные работы б) горнорабочий, шахтер, "углекоп", рудокоп, отбойщик, забойщик в) золотоискатель, кладоискатель г) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
WASP — wasp.ogg wɒsp n зоол. оса ( Vespoidae ) wasp s' nest, nest of wasps - осиное гнездо, скопище врагов
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Concise Oxford English vocab

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