tubuan noun English. A large, dark red or yellow wasp which does not make honey and hangs its hive from limbs. Example sentence: Subanen. Ki tubuan, dua' ginis. Duuni medalagdalag, duuni maitem, laak ndi' metau megbaal teneb. Laak ki gebuten, mesait padun di tiwan. English. There are two kinds of tubuan wasp. There are yellow ones and dark red ones. They do not make honey. Their bite hurts worse than a beesting. Generic. tubu'