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YELLOW HORNET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yellow hornet mean? 

YELLOW HORNET (noun)
  The noun YELLOW HORNET has 1 sense:

1. small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the groundplay

  Familiarity information: YELLOW HORNET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


YELLOW HORNET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Vespula maculifrons; yellow hornet; yellow jacket

Hypernyms ("yellow hornet" is a kind of...):

hornet (large stinging paper wasp)

Holonyms ("yellow hornet" is a member of...):

genus Vespula; Vespula (sometimes considered a subgenus of Vespa: social wasps)


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