Wasp vs. Jasper

Waspnoun

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

Waspnoun

(entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

Waspnoun

Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

Waspnoun

A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

Waspnoun

alternative case form of WASP||White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Waspnoun

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Waspnoun

a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

Waspnoun

social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as their common ancestor is shared by bees and ants.

Jaspernoun

(obsolete) Any bright-coloured kind of chalcedony apart from cornelian.

Jaspernoun

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface.

Jaspernoun

Jasperware pottery.

Jaspernoun

A wasp.

Jaspernoun

A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple.

Jaspernoun

An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped jasper or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper.

Jaspernoun

an opaque form of quartz; red or yellow or brown or dark green in color; used for ornamentation or as a gemstone

Jasper

Jasper, an aggregate of microgranular quartz and/or chalcedony and other mineral phases, is an opaque, impure variety of silica, usually red, yellow, brown or green in color; and rarely blue. The common red color is due to iron(III) inclusions.