WordNet
wasps' nest
n. habitation for wasps or hornets [syn: wasp's nest, hornet's nest, hornets' nest]
Usage examples of "wasps' nest".
Glancing out the back window of the cabin, past the wasps' nest, she could see empties of bottled water in a trash heap.
The wasps' nest was in the shape of a cone, the point facing toward the earth.
They were bees - no, they were wasps - and he realized that the earthy mound that his hand had clipped on the low-hanging bough was the hardened pulp of a wasps' nest.
She wanted to look back on it no more than she wanted to go back to that rocky slope and repeat her roll down to the tree with the wasps' nest in it.
And his right hand held the charred wasps' nest from Case's dream, reek of fuel in the closeness of the darkshop.