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yellow granadilla
yellow green
yellow gurnard
yellow hawkweed
yellow henbane
yellow honeysuckle
yellow horned poppy
yellow hornet
yellow iris
yellow ironweed
yellow jacaranda
yellow jack
yellow jacket
yellow jasmine
yellow jessamine
yellow journalism
yellow lady's slipper
yellow lady-slipper
yellow lead ore
Yellow lemur
yellow light
yellow line
yellow locust
yellow loosestrife
Yellow lousewort
yellow lupine
Yellow macauco
yellow mackerel
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Wasp Wasp, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[ae]ps, w[ae]fs; akin to D. wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ. osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets. Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and protect them by a paperlike covering. The larv[ae] are reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and insect larv[ae] brought to them by the adults, but the latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers, and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in Appendix. Digger wasp, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the ground, as the sand wasps. See Sand wasp, under Sand. Mud wasp. See under Mud. Potter wasp. See under Potter. Wasp fly, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a sting.
