hornet

Noun

Meaning

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

Synonyms

paper wasp bald-faced hornet large wasp ant bee wasp insect bumblebee sawfly hymenopteron yellowjacket fire ant carpenter bee mud dauber Polistes
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Hypernyms

animal vespid vespid wasp

Hyponyms

bald-faced hornet yellow jacket giant hornet vespula maculata white-faced hornet vespa crabro

Phrases with the word

hornet's nest hornet fly Asian hornet stir up a hornet's nest hornet relative as mad as a hornet

Anagrams

enhort nother throne Rhoten Theron Thoren Thorne

Examples

"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

Close letter words and terms

Horner-Wittig reaction hornerin hornero hornet clearwing hornet fly hornet moth