paper wasp

paper wasp

n. Any of various social vespid wasps, especially those in the genus Polistes, that build papery nests from chewed wood pulp.

pa′per wasp`

n. any of several social wasps, as the yellow jacket or hornet, that construct a nest of a paperlike substance. [1850–55.]

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paper wasp - any of several social wasps that construct nests of a substance like papervespid, vespid wasp - mostly social nest-building waspsPolistes annularis - a variety of paper wasp