See Vespa on Wiktionary
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"word": "Vespa soror"
},
{
"sense": "genus",
"word": "Vespa tropica"
},
{
"sense": "genus",
"word": "Vespa velutina"
},
{
"english": "species",
"sense": "genus",
"word": "Vespa vivax"
}
],
"lang": "Translingual",
"lang_code": "mul",
"pos": "name",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"Translingual entries with incorrect language header",
"Translingual lemmas",
"Translingual proper nouns",
"Translingual terms derived from Latin",
"mul:Hymenopterans",
"mul:Taxonomic names (genus)"
],
"glosses": [
"A taxonomic genus within the family Vespidae – hornets."
],
"links": [
[
"genus",
"genus#English"
],
[
"family",
"family#English"
],
[
"Vespidae",
"Vespidae#Translingual"
],
[
"hornet",
"hornet"
]
],
"tags": [
"feminine"
]
}
],
"word": "Vespa"
}
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