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  • adjective Resembling a wasp or some aspect of it.

Etymologies

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wasp +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Her smooth, wasplike line was simply styling, and everything about her interior was cal - culated to add to the overall impression of speed.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • It was only the wasplike sheath they wore from their waists down that was truly armoured.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • It was only the wasplike sheath they wore from their waists down that was truly armoured.

    365 tomorrows » Swarm : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • Apparently what we were waiting for was a F'ing Huge Bee (that looked vaguely wasplike). * twitches* We need a screen for this damned window.

    jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2003

  • Her body, with its buoyant breasts, wasplike waist, and endless legs defies all human proportion.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • Her body, with its buoyant breasts, wasplike waist, and endless legs defies all human proportion.

    The Barbie Chronicles Yona Zeldis McDonough 1999

  • Fountains of white-green fire were exploding from the ruptured Jem'Hadar station as the aliens inside boiled out with the wasplike fury Dax had predicted.

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • Sisko squinted through the blur of too-close focus to watch as two of the wasplike attackers coordinated a stab at the fighter's sensor array.

    Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

  • Her smooth, wasplike line was simply styling, and everything about her interior was cal - culated to add to the overall impression of speed.

    Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984

  • The Hogan's Goat was a sculptured torpedo, and the Jumper machinery was its rounded nose and its thick spine and its trailing wasplike sting.

    Covergent Series Niven, Larry 1979

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