DIGGER WASP

Meaning of DIGGER WASP in English

any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.

[ 1840-50 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

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 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 — ■ noun a solitary wasp which excavates a burrow, filling it with paralysed insects or spiders for its larvae to …
Concise Oxford English vocab
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
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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