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Yellow jacket   /jˈɛloʊ dʒˈækət/   Listen
Yellow jacket

noun
1.
A barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic.  Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium.
2.
Small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground.  Synonyms: Vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet.





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"Yellow jacket" Quotes from Famous Books



... ants survive the winter as mature forms, either in their nests in the ground or huddled groups in half rotten logs and stumps; while here and there beneath logs a solitary queen bumble-bee, bald hornet, or yellow jacket is found—the sole representatives of ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various


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