common wasp

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   a variety of vespid wasp

   SynonymsVespula vulgaris

   Broadervespid

   Part ofVespula

Questions about common wasp

What does common wasp mean?

common wasp means "a variety of vespid wasp".

What is another word for common wasp?

Close synonyms include Vespula vulgaris. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common wasp a common word?

common wasp is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.