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mud dauber
noun
- any of several wasps of the family Sphecidae that build a nest of mud cells and provision it with spiders or insects.
mud dauber
noun
- any of various wasps of the family Sphecidae, that construct cells of mud or clay in which they lay their eggs and store live insects as food for the developing larvae See also digger wasp
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mud dauber1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences
At the same time, another variety of wasp, the pipe-organ mud dauber, was building nests only of nonradioactive mud.
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This little white spider I found in the nest of a mud dauber wasp.
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A wasp of the variety commonly called "mud-dauber" last summer built her nest on the ceiling of my room in one corner.
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A mud-dauber wasp built a nest in my room, and used an open ventilating window as an entrance and exit.
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But in Marions room there is a beam, and against that beam there is the nest of a mud-dauber.
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