hornet
any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro(giant hornet ), introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata(bald-faced hornet, or white-faced hornet ), of North America.
Origin of hornet
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How to use hornet in a sentence
A writhing ball of bees “cooks” or smothers a hornet to death, says Mattila.
Honeybees fend off deadly hornets by decorating hives with poop | Asher Jones | January 19, 2021 | Science News For StudentsShe wanted to know whether I’d figured out how to make our little patch of Amandola a no-fly zone for hornets.
The global rally stalls out, but Goldman Sachs is doubling down on value stocks | Bernhard Warner | December 7, 2020 | FortuneInside a walk-in cooler, where the cold temperatures stunted the insects’ mobility, the scientists cracked the tree open with a sledgehammer and collected hornets at various stages of life.
A nest filled with hundreds of ‘murder hornets’ was destroyed ‘just in the nick of time,’ officials say | Teo Armus | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostThat hornet spread at an average rate of about 100 kilometers per year.
A new map shows where Asian giant hornets could thrive in the U.S. | Curtis Segarra | October 1, 2020 | Science NewsHe’s a hornet specialist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
What you need to know about ‘murder hornets’ | Susan Milius | July 20, 2020 | Science News For Students
Pulling engineers from the Super hornet program then led to a maintenance backlog on that program too, sources said.
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps also use the supersonic F/A-18 hornet strike fighter to guide other jets to their targets.
Air Force Pilots Say They're Flying Blind Against ISIS | Dave Majumdar | October 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWas The Green hornet an example of a Hollywood film where you lost your power in the editing room?
Michel Gondry on ‘Mood Indigo,’ Kanye West, and the 10th Anniversary of ‘Eternal Sunshine’ | Marlow Stern | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut that's abstract enough to allow people to read into it what they will and avoid the hornet's nest of contemporary politics.
With his chunky-to-hunky transformation into the Green hornet, the Rogenator, pretty surprisingly, is no exception.
But after it all, he asked me to marry him, and was as mad as a hornet, and said dreadful things to me when I refused him.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterWar broke out soon afterward and he became an officer on the hornet, though still only a boy.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousDo you know how a hornet behaves when a mischievous boy throws a stone at its nest?
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousWhen the Constitution went south to Brazil at that time the hornet went with her, but they soon parted.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | VariousThe Chesapeake was taken in just fifteen minutes, one minute more than the hornet had taken to capture the Peacock.
Stories of Our Naval Heroes | Various
British Dictionary definitions for hornet
/ (ˈhɔːnɪt) /
any of various large social wasps of the family Vespidae, esp Vespa crabro of Europe, that can inflict a severe sting
hornet's nest a strongly unfavourable reaction (often in the phrase stir up a hornet's nest)
Origin of hornet
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Other Idioms and Phrases with hornet
see mad as a hornet; stir up a hornet's nest.
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