Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wasp

2 senses of wasp

Sense 1
WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant -- (a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination)
       => White, White person, Caucasian -- (a member of the Caucasoid race)
       => Protestant -- (an adherent of Protestantism)

Sense 2
wasp -- (social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting)
       => hymenopterous insect, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopter -- (insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing)