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Sphecidae

noun

mud daubers; some digger wasps

• Syn: ↑family Sphecidae

• Hypernyms: ↑arthropod family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Sphecoidea, ↑superfamily Sphecoidea

• Member Meronyms: ↑Sceliphron, ↑genus Sceliphron, ↑mud dauber

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\\ˈsfēsəˌdē, -fes-\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Sphec-, Sphex, type genus + -idae

: a family of solitary wasps (superfamily Sphecoidea) having the first segment of the abdomen generally prolonged into a long smooth cylindrical petiole and including the mud daubers and some digger wasps

Useful english dictionary. 2012.