wasp是什么意思_wasp怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

wasp: wasp: [OE] Etymologically, the wasp may be the ‘weaver’. The word comes ultimately from Indo- European *wobhes- or *wops-, which was probably derived from the base *webh-, *wobh- ‘weave’ (source of English weave, web, etc); the allusion is presumably to the papery nest which many species construct. West Germanic took this over as *wabis- or *waps-, and the process of metathesis (reversal of sounds) produced English wasp and German wespe. From the same Indo-European ancestor come Latin vespa (source of French guêpe, Italian vespa, and Spanish avispa) and Russian osa.
=> weave, web
wasp (n.): Old English wæps, wæsp "wasp," altered (probably by influence of Latin vespa) from Proto-Germanic *wabis- (cognates: Old Saxon waspa, Middle Dutch wespe, Dutch wesp, Old High German wafsa, German Wespe, Danish hveps), from PIE *wopsa-/*wospa- "wasp" (cognates: Latin vespa, Lithuanian vapsa, Old Church Slavonic vosa "wasp," Old Irish foich "drone"), perhaps from *webh- "weave" (see weave (v.)). If that is the correct derivation, the insect would be so called for the shape of its nest. Of persons with wasp-like tendencies, from c. 1500. Wasp-waist in reference to women"s figures is recorded from 1870 (wasp-waisted is from 1775).
WASP (n.): acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, by 1955.

词态变化

复数 wasps;

1. The dress exaggerates her wasp waist and enlarges her bosom.: 那件连衣裙凸显了她的蜂腰，也让她的胸部看起来更丰满。

wasp waist 蜂腰

wasp sting 黄蜂螫伤

citrus gall wasp 柑橘瘿蜂

parasitic wasp 寄生蜂

queen wasp 蜂王

gall wasp 五倍子蜂,瘿蜂...

wood wasp 树蜂

fig wasp 榕小蜂

wasp venom 胡蜂毒液

wasp-venom antitoxin [医] 抗黄蜂毒素...

wasp 黄蜂

wasp-waisted 细腰的

vespid wasp n. 黄蜂，胡蜂

cynipid wasp phr. 瘿蜂，栎瘿，五倍子虫

gall wasp 瘿蜂

fig wasp 榕小蜂

wasp excluder 防虫器

parasitical wasp 寄生蜂

wasp kinin 黄蜂激肽

mason wasp 红切叶蜂

cuckoo wasp 青蜂

potter wasp phr. 陶工黄蜂

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