the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > with nest on ground
1880 M. Allan-Olney I. 98 There is a small ground-wasp, like the English wasp in shape and colour; and a very large ground-wasp, whose sting is very vicious.