vespula

1. 1.

   sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps

   Synonymsgenus Vespula

   Broaderarthropod genus

   Part ofVespidae

Other forms of vespula

plural

vespulas·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about vespula

What does vespula mean?

vespula means "sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps".

How many syllables are in vespula?

vespula has 3 syllables: ve-spu-la. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for vespula?

Close synonyms include genus Vespula. 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 vespula a common word?

vespula 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.