velvet ant

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   a solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae; the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless

   Broaderwasp

   Part ofMutillidae

Questions about velvet ant

What does velvet ant mean?

velvet ant means "a solitary wasp of the family Mutillidae; the body has a coat of brightly colored velvety hair and the females are wingless".

Is velvet ant a common word?

velvet ant 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.