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digger
(encz) | digger,archeolog n: |
digger
(encz) | digger,kopáč n: |
Digger
(gcide) | Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
One who, or that which, digs.
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Digger wasp (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
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Digger
(gcide) | Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.)
A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
their practice of digging roots for food.
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digger
(wn) | digger
n 1: a laborer who digs
2: a machine for excavating [syn: power shovel, excavator,
digger, shovel] |
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digger wasp
(encz) | digger wasp, n: |
ditch digger
(encz) | ditch digger, n: |
gold digger
(encz) | gold digger,zlatokop n: Zdeněk Brož |
gravedigger
(encz) | gravedigger,hrobník n: Zdeněk Brož |
mud digger
(encz) | mud digger,bahenní bagr n: web |
post-hole digger
(encz) | post-hole digger, n: |
posthole digger
(encz) | posthole digger, n: |
Digger
(gcide) | Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
One who, or that which, digs.
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Digger wasp (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
[1913 Webster]Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.)
A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
their practice of digging roots for food.
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Digger wasp
(gcide) | Wasp \Wasp\, n. [OE. waspe, AS. w[ae]ps, w[ae]fs; akin to D.
wesp, G. wespe, OHG. wafsa, wefsa, Lith. vapsa gadfly, Russ.
osa wasp, L. vespa, and perhaps to E. weave.] (Zool.)
Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous
insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus
Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of
which are called yellow jackets.
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Note: The social wasps make a complex series of combs, of a
substance like stiff paper, often of large size, and
protect them by a paperlike covering. The larvae are
reared in the cells of the combs, and eat insects and
insect larvae brought to them by the adults, but the
latter feed mainly on the honey and pollen of flowers,
and on the sweet juices of fruit. See Illust. in
Appendix.
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Digger wasp, any one of numerous species of solitary wasps
that make their nests in burrows which they dig in the
ground, as the sand wasps. See Sand wasp, under Sand.
Mud wasp. See under Mud.
Potter wasp. See under Potter.
Wasp fly, a species of fly resembling a wasp, but without a
sting.
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[1913 Webster]Digger \Dig"ger\, n.
One who, or that which, digs.
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Digger wasp (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera.
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Diggers
(gcide) | Diggers \Dig"gers\, n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.)
A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from
their practice of digging roots for food.
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Gravedigger
(gcide) | Gravedigger \Grave"dig`ger\, n.
1. A digger of graves.
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2. (Zool.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t.
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Mussel digger
(gcide) | Mussel \Mus"sel\, n. [See Muscle, 3.]
1. (Zool.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells
of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family
Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see
Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel
(Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe
and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as
food in Europe.
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2. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related
fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See
Naiad, and Unio.
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Mussel digger (Zool.), the grayback whale. See {Gray
whale}, under Gray.
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digger wasp
(wn) | digger wasp
n 1: solitary wasp that digs nests in the soil and stocks them
with paralyzed insects for the larvae |
ditch digger
(wn) | ditch digger
n 1: a laborer who digs ditches [syn: ditch digger, {mud
digger}] |
gold digger
(wn) | gold digger
n 1: a miner who digs or pans for gold in a gold field [syn:
gold miner, gold digger, gold panner]
2: a woman who associates with or marries a rich man in order to
get valuables from him through gifts or a divorce settlement |
gravedigger
(wn) | gravedigger
n 1: a person who earns a living by digging graves |
mud digger
(wn) | mud digger
n 1: a laborer who digs ditches [syn: ditch digger, {mud
digger}] |
post-hole digger
(wn) | post-hole digger
n 1: a shovel used to sink postholes [syn: posthole digger,
post-hole digger] |
posthole digger
(wn) | posthole digger
n 1: a shovel used to sink postholes [syn: posthole digger,
post-hole digger] |
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