cuckoo wasp
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of the many wasps of the family Chrysididae that are kleptoparasites or parasitoids and are often brightly coloured.
Example Sentences
- "In this volume the author presents an account of the ants and cuckoo wasps."
- "In our account of the mason-wasps, we have referred to the destruction of their grubs by the interposition of the ruby-tails or cuckoo-wasps."
- "Dr. L. H. Taylor determined the cuckoo-wasps (Chrysididae); Dr. H. T. Fernald the Sphecidae;[…]."
Inflected Forms
cuckoo wasps (plural)
cuckoo-wasp (alternative)