| 单词 | queen wasp |
| 释义 | > as lemmasqueen wasp queen wasp n. the single reproductive female in a colony of social wasps; cf. sense 9 and queen bee n.; cf. also king-wasp n. at king n. Compounds 4c.Newly mated queen wasps hibernate through the winter and found a new colony in the spring. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > the wasps > queen king-wasp1724 queen1724 queen wasp1724 sow-wasp1875 1724 Philos. Trans. 1722–3 (Royal Soc.) 33 59 The Queen-Wasps..were weak, and did not buz long. 1827 E. Bevan Honey-bee 187 The queen-wasps were unusually numerous in the spring of that year. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. vii. 137 The resting chrysalid..is rather different from the comatose queen humble-bee or queen wasp. 1971 Country Life 1 July 29/3 I recently discovered two queen wasps beginning to build their nests on the undersides..of our nesting boxes. < as lemmas |
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