mason wasp

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mason wasp (plural mason wasps)

  1. A potter wasp.
    • 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 383:
      Crabbe continued to lie, eyes slowly following the questing flight of a mason-wasp, flat on his back, hands folded.
  2. A wasp of species Pison spinolae, of New Zealand.

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