sphex

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a sand or digger wasp of the genus Sphex or a closely related genus

   The sphex dragged a paralyzed insect toward its nest burrow.

Borrowed from the scientific genus name Sphex, from Greek sphex ("wasp"). Naturalists extended the genus name to individual sand or digger wasps of that genus and allied groups.

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