| 单词 | marabunta wasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmarabunta wasp In Guyana and the Caribbean islands: a social wasp, esp. any of several large reddish-brown wasps of the genus Polistes. Also marabunta wasp, marabunta hornet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > superfamily Vespoidea (hornets) > member of marabunta1822 jack spaniard1833 Spaniard1909 1822 G. Downes Lett. from Mecklenburg x. 119 In a cabinet..were a variety of curiosities, some of which I shall briefly enumerate:—Cups of ivory and gold, beautifully wrought..—A large marabunta's nest. 1866 R. Duff Brit. Guiana ix. 166 The common marabunter, polistes... The second kind is the large black marabunter, polistes morio. The third is the small black marabunter. The fourth is the small common marabunter, P. nidulans. 1883 E. F. Im Thurn Among Indians of Guiana v. 150 The wasps vary much more in general appearance and size, some of them being large and beautifully coloured insects. The forest-dwelling social species are indiscriminately called by the colonists marabuntas. 1898 H. Kirke 25 Years Brit. Guiana iii. 76 A large brown wasp, called a marabunta, builds his pretty paper combs under the eaves and galleries of our houses; his sting is severe. 1918 C. W. Beebe Jungle Peace (1919) iv. 81 I listened to the buzzing of a marabunta wasp. 1934 E. Waugh Handful of Dust v. 267 A marabunta had left a painful swelling on his left hand. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas i. 12 Marabuntas built clay nests in the thatch. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas vi. 141 Tonic and Woody Sam removed spiders, cobwebs, marabunta nests..from the roof. 1997 P. Melville Ventriloquist's Tale (1998) i. 15 He..had accidentally disturbed a nest of marabunta hornets on the trunk of a neighbouring tree. < as lemmas |
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