YELLOW HORNET

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground

Synonyms:

Vespula maculifrons; yellow hornet; yellow jacket

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Nouns denoting animals

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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