Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gold wasp or cuckoofly of the hymenopterous family Chrysididæ, as Chrysis ignita, having the abdomen of a ruby color.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun zoology A European wasp, Chrysis ignita, with a bright red underside of the abdomen.

Etymologies

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ruby +‎ tail

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