Noun
A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (V. maculata) is larger and has similar habits.
Source: Webster's dictionary"It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,” she explained. Agatha Christie
I don't need to praise anything so justly famous as Frost's observation of and empathy with everything in Nature from a hornet to a hillside; and he has observed his own nature, one person's random or consequential chains of thoughts and feelings and perceptions, quite as well. Randall Jarrell
A fly is a fly, and a flower is a flower, but a hornet is an organization. Henry Schriver
A slander is like a hornet if you cannot kill it dead the first blow, better not strike at it. Josh Billings
1974 The introductory 1974 Gremlins became unique by incorporating the front clip of the 1974 U.S. AMC Hornet models. Source: Internet
A bald-faced hornet won my only encounter with one. Source: Internet