资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[ae]ps, w[ae]fs; akin to D.
   wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ.
   osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zo["o]l.)
   Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
   insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus
   {Vespa}, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of
   which are called {yellow jackets}.

   Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a
         substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and
         protect them by a paperlike covering. The larv[ae] are
         reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and
         insect larv[ae] brought to them by the adults, but the
         latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers,
         and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in
         Appendix.

   {Digger wasp}, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps
      that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the
      ground, as the sand wasps. See {Sand wasp}, under {Sand}.
      

   {Mud wasp}. See under {Mud}.

   {Potter wasp}. See under {Potter}.

   {Wasp fly}, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a
      sting.

Potter \Pot"ter\, n. [Cf. F. potier.]
   1. One whose occupation is to make earthen vessels. --Ps. ii.
      9.

            The potter heard, and stopped his wheel.
                                                  --Longfellow.

   2. One who hawks crockery or earthenware. [Prov. Eng.] --De
      Quincey.

   3. One who pots meats or other eatables.

   4. (Zo["o]l.) The red-bellied terrapin. See {Terrapin}.

   {Potter's asthma} (Med.), emphysema of the lungs; -- so
      called because very prevalent among potters. --Parkers.

   {Potter's clay}. See under {Clay}.

   {Potter's field}, a public burial place, especially in a
      city, for paupers, unknown persons, and criminals; -- so
      named from the field south of Jerusalem, mentioned in
      --Matt. xxvii. 7.

   {Potter's ore}. See {Alquifou}.

   {Potter's wheel}, a horizontal revolving disk on which the
      clay is molded into form with the hands or tools. ``My
      thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel.'' --Shak.

   {Potter wasp} (Zo["o]l.), a small solitary wasp ({Eumenes
      fraternal}) which constructs a globular nest of mud and
      sand in which it deposits insect larv[ae], such as
      cankerworms, as food for its young.

资料来源 : WordNet®

potter wasp
     n : any of various solitary wasps that construct vase-shaped
         cells of mud for their eggs