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paper wasp in American Englishnounany of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance consisting of chewed plant material Word origin [1850–55, Amer.]Examples of 'paper wasp' in a sentencepaper wasp A paper wasp zooms above smooth river pebbles.The pictures included different paper wasp faces, geometric patterns, caterpillars and wasp faces altered by computer.Paper wasps, which gather fibres, including paper, to build nests, behave more aggressively to wasps with unfamiliar faces. |