paper wasp in English

noun
1
a social wasp that forms a small, umbrella-shaped nest made from wood pulp.
The word wasp almost immediately conjures up an image of hornets swarming from papery football-shaped nests, or the fierce stings of the common paper wasp .

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1. They mimic a paper wasp (Polistes species).