nounplural noun vespiaries

• A wasps' nest.

  ‘The buzz of wasps and the bees in the vespiary were all the chaos she had ever experienced.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It is said the drone also keeps the vespiary clean, clearing away all rubbish and carrying out dead bodies.’
  • ‘You shouldn't approach beehives and vespiaries.’
  • ‘If bees and butterflies have apiaries and ants have formicaries, wasps have vespiaries.’
  • ‘Here's what not to write: ‘A bevy of quail wandered near the estuary / While the debutante waved a rake at the vespiary / A tumultuous buzzing disrupted the serenity/and there came an agglomeration of enmity’.’