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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A nest or colony of wasps or hornets.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A hornets' nest; the habitation of social wasps; also, the colony or aggregate of wasps in such a nest. See Vespa, and cut under wasp, and compare apiary and formicary.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A nest built by a social wasp species.
  2. n. A colony of wasps living in such a nest.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A nest, or habitation, of insects of the wasp kind.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin vespa ("wasp") + -iary (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin vespa, wasp + (ap)iary. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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