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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various solitary predatory wasps, especially of the families Sphecidae and Crabronidae, that build nests of mud and provision them with paralyzed prey.
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- noun wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae
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