waspling

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noun

A small, young, or baby wasp.

Scrabble 14

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nounwaspling (plural wasplings)

plural wasplings

  1. A small, young, or baby wasp.

    Now safely sealed within a cell, she fed on both the defenceless spiders and the developing waspling.

    2007, Jennifer Scoullar, Wasp Season
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    It seemed that the reverse would be the ideal arrangement since the little waspling would upon hatching find food immediately at hand and thus be secured from any chance of starving while in a weak and helpless state.

    1922, Annals of the Entomological Society of America, volumes 15-16, page 240

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