sphecoid

Meaning

Adjective

  • Of or pertaining to wasps formerly classified in the superfamily Sphecoidea (corresponding to all wasps in Apoidea), now sometimes treated as the series Spheciformes.

Origin

  • From Translingual Sphecidae, from Ancient Greek σφήξ

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