noun
definition
A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
definition
A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.
Examples of hornet in a Sentence
The "Essex" and "Hornet" were not in company.
It made Janet as mad as a hornet, but Martha's back in the classroom.
Many gardeners have reached into the green leaves to pluck a berry, only to feel the harsh sting of an angry wasp, hornet or bee who was also sampling the wares.
The larvae of several nocturnal Lepidoptera feed upon the leaves of the willows, and the trunk of the sallow is often injured by the perforations of the lunar hornet sphinx (Trochilium crabroniforme).
The Hornet is heavily tinted in a blue sheen for bright to extremely bright conditions.
The most anticipated of these films, however, is the adaptation of The Green Hornet, which also stars Seth Rogen and Cameron Diaz.
Rides range from The Hornet's Nest (you're cautioned to eat AFTER riding this one!) where you're tossed around in the air in unpredictable directions, to the Dodgems (bumper cars).
The allergist may also be able to give allergy shots to children with wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, honey bee, or fire ant allergies.
A hat with a veil and a container of wasp or hornet spray are recommended if going into an area where yellow jackets reside.
Fortunately the majority are of small size, and their bites are not followed by more severe effects than those from the sting of a hornet.
But on the other side the disorder became greater and greater, many regiments were used up, and Johnston himself killed in vainly attacking on a point of Wallace's line called the Hornet's Nest.
When it began two small squadrons were getting ready for sea at New York; the frigate "President" (44) and sloop "Hornet" (18), under Commodore John Rodgers, who had also the general command; and the frigates "United States" (44) and "Congress" (38), with the brig "Argus" (16) to which two guns were afterwards added, under Captain Stephen Decatur.
Some of us saw a hornet patrolling a water filled ditch much like a dragonfly.
Therefore, we are linking to an MP3 file of the voicemail that has stirred this literal hornet 's nest of controversy.
The picture shows a normal worker wasp next to a queen hornet.
You're right, the whole issue has stirred up a bit of a hornet's nest.
Marcinkus ' removal from office would open a hornet's nest of financial sleaze.
Click here for chapter 4 - ' Stirring up a hornet 's nest '.
Rogen has worked on numerous writing projects with his childhood friend, Evan Goldberg, including Da Ali G Show, Superbad, The Pineapple Express, and a remake of The Green Hornet.
This beetle probably mimics the Australian hornet (Abispa australis).
At the close of the month Captain Bainbridge sailed with the "Constitution," "Essex" (32) and "Hornet" (18) on a southerly cruise.
Each nasty little hornet, Each beastly little squid; Who made the spiky urchin?
Marcinkus ' removal from office would open a hornet 's nest of financial sleaze.