YELLOW JACKET • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Yellow jacket

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/jˈɛloʊ dʒˈækət/ Listen

Yellow jacket

noun

A barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic. Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium.

Small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground. Synonyms: Vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet.

See images of 'Yellow jacket'

Etymology of 'Yellow jacket'

Share |

"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

Words linked to "Yellow jacket" : pentobarbital sodium, Nembutal, pentobarbital, genus Vespula, barbiturate, Vespula maculifrons, Vespula, hornet