a. [f. vesp-a wasp + -INE1.] Of or pertaining to a wasp or wasps; consisting of wasps.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVII. 105/1. The neuters are the … busiest class of the vespine community.
1863. Miss Yonge, Wars Wapsburg, 25. Vespine laws of fortification could not be more perfectly observed.
1884. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 400. To meet this abnormal fancy of the vespine intellect, the fig-wort makes its sensitive surface mature first.
