English noun: yellow jacket | |||
1. | yellow jacket (artifact) a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic | ||
Synonyms | Nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium | ||
Broader (hypernym) | barbiturate | ||
2. | yellow jacket (animal) small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground | ||
Synonyms | Vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet | ||
Broader (hypernym) | hornet | ||
Member meronym | genus Vespula, Vespula | ||