hornet
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈhɔrnɪt/
- I heard he's trained a swarm of hornets to attack on command.
- hornet's nest
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Watch on YouTubeThis is enough to cook the giant Hornet alive.
- This is enough to cook the giant Hornet alive.
- It is actually this fluid produced by the larvae of Hornets.
- She walks barefoot on the grass, even though the father tells her not to, saying, and he's right, that there might be porcupines, Hornets, snakes.
- He says, yes, when we did that, we, we kicked a hornet's nest because we actually disrupted their entire system.
- So don't mess around with a with Hornets because it's painful.
- That's only flies, but says bees, Hornets, ants.
- We've seen monkeys, we've seen bats, we've seen hornet's nest.
- But I don't think I could have survived if I didn't fire him because it was like a hornet's nest when I fired him, they all went crazy.
Examples
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I could get stung by a hornet down there, and I would not feel it.
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The engines make a loud buzz like a swarm of angry hornets.
Fiction book (2001) -
Being stung by a Hornet is the most shocking thing.
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If you want to get rid of a hornet's nest, you can freeze it.
Blog text (4) -
We have stirred up a hornet's nest here.
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And they are not hornets or yellow jacket wasps, which are sometimes mistakenly called bees.
Academic text (1994) -
"Wasps and hornets visit flowers and eat nectar, but they don't collect pollen."
Academic text (1994) -
The questions buzzed through his mind like angry hornets, intrusive and demanding, stingers poised.
Fiction book (1993) -
While hiking in the forest, I accidentally walked too close to a hornet nest and felt a sharp sting.
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The gardener warned us to be careful, as there was a hornet nest hidden among the branches of the tree.
Synonyms
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1.0
A flying insect like a bee with a narrow waist and a sting, often yellow and black
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6.5
A very large insect like a wasp that stings and can be aggressive
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6.8
A small wasp with yellow marks that lives in nests in the ground
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8.3
A group of large wasps like hornets that can sting
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8.2
A large black and white hornet in North America that builds paper nests in trees and defends them
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8.0
A social wasp that builds nests, like yellowjackets or hornets
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9.9
A wasp like a yellowjacket or hornet that lives in a colony and builds paper nests
A large black and white wasp often called the bald-faced hornet that makes big paper nests
A large black and white wasp with a pale face that can sting people and becomes aggressive when threatened
A group of wasps like hornets and yellow jackets
Compounds
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8.2
A large black and white hornet in North America that builds paper nests in trees and defends them
A large black and white wasp with a pale face that can sting people and becomes aggressive when threatened
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Surface Forms
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Etymology
Hornet comes from an old word for horn plus the small ending -et, so it originally meant 'small horn'. Think of the wasp's sharp sting like a horn, which helps explain why a hornet is a large wasp with a powerful sting.