a black and yellow flying insect that can sting 黃蜂;胡蜂 a wasp sting 黃蜂蜇傷 a wasps’ nest 黃蜂窩
Oxford Collocations Dictionarywasp + verb- crawl
- fly
- sting somebody
- …
- sting
- nest
- a wasp’s nest
Word OriginOld English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to weave (from the web-like form of its nest).