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Yellow Jacket

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Noun

1. nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium, yellow jacket

a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic

2. vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet, yellow jacket

small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yellow Jacket

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noun
US and Canadian
any of several social wasps of the genus Vespa, having yellow markings on the body

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Yellow Jacket

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any of several small social wasps or hornets (family Vespidae) having bright-yellow markings

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yellow Jacket

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n.
Any of several small wasps of the family Vespidae that have yellow and black markings and nest in the ground, in trees, or in buildings.

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