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SPHECIDAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Mud daubers; some digger wasps

Synonyms:

family Sphecidae; Sphecidae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Sphecidae" is a kind of...):

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "Sphecidae"):

genus Sceliphron; Sceliphron (mud daubers)

mud dauber (wasp that constructs mud cells on a solid base in which females place eggs laid in paralyzed insect larvae)

Holonyms ("Sphecidae" is a member of...):

Sphecoidea; superfamily Sphecoidea (families Sphecidae and Stizidae)

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