FAMILY SPHECIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Sphecidae mean? 

• FAMILY SPHECIDAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY SPHECIDAE has 1 sense:

1. mud daubers; some digger wasps

  Familiarity information: FAMILY SPHECIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY SPHECIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mud daubers; some digger wasps

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Sphecidae; Sphecidae

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "family 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 ("family Sphecidae" is a member of...):

Sphecoidea; superfamily Sphecoidea (families Sphecidae and Stizidae)