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/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.

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"Yellow jacket" Quotes from Famous Books

... road there was much shaded by willows and wych-elms and other trees that love the neighbourhood of water, for the brook which turned the mill was down there. But when the carriage began to go up on the other side, they saw it quite plain; there was the post-boy in his yellow jacket, jogging up and down on his saddle, and Mr. Fairchild sometimes a little before and sometimes a ...

— The Fairchild Family • Mary Martha Sherwood

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