Hornet vs. Wasp

Hornetnoun

A large wasp, of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.

Hornetnoun

A person who pesters with petty but ceaseless attacks.

Hornetnoun

A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (Vespa maculata) is larger and has similar habits.

Hornetnoun

large stinging paper wasp

Hornet

Hornets (insects in the genus Vespa) are the largest of the eusocial wasps, and are similar in appearance to their close relatives yellowjackets. Some species can reach up to 5.5 cm (2.2 in) in length.

Waspnoun

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

Waspnoun

(entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

Waspnoun

Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

Waspnoun

A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

Waspnoun

alternative case form of WASP||White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Waspnoun

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Waspnoun

a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

Waspnoun

social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

Wasp

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as their common ancestor is shared by bees and ants.