SINCE 1828
Pompilidae
plural noun
Pom·pil·i·dae
| \pämˈpiləˌdē\
Definition of Pompilidae
: a large family of slender usually black fossorial short-petioled wasps with oval abdomen and strong spinose legs of which most (as the tarantula killer) burrow in the ground and provision their nests with spiders
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