Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sand-wasp, especially of the family Crabronidæ, some of which resemble hornets. See cut under
Crabronidæ .
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Examples
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The great sand-hornet selects for its most frequent victim the buzzing cicada, or harvest-fly, an insect much larger than itself, and which it carries off to its long sand tunnels by short flights from successive elevated points, such as the limbs of trees and summits of rocks, to which it repeatedly lugs its clumsy prey.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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Cicada, victim of the sand-hornet, 77; manner of depositing its eggs; period of transformation, 97; time of hatching, 100.
My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873
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