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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various large predatory wasps of the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis, whose females have a painful sting and provision their nests with a paralyzed tarantula.
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- noun A kind of
pompilid spider wasp that huntstarantulas asfood for itslarvae .
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