Translingual

Vespa mandarinia (Asian giant hornet) feeding on fallen fruit

Proper noun

Vespidae

1. A taxonomic family within the superfamily Vespoidea – many eusocial and solitary wasps.

Hypernyms

• (family): Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Endopterygota - clades; Hymenopterida - superorder; Hymenoptera - order; Apocrita - suborder; Vespoidea - superfamily

Hyponyms

• (family): Vespinae (yellowjackets and hornets), Eumeninae (potter wasps), Euparagiinae, Masarinae (pollen wasps), Polistinae (paper wasps), Stenogastrinae (subfamilies)