Definition of hornet in English:
hornet
noun ˈhɔːnɪtˈhɔrnət
A large, fairly docile wasp which is typically red and yellow or red and black and usually nests in hollow trees.
大黄蜂Vespa and other genera, family Vespidae: several species, including the European V. crabro
- A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
- Insects such as bees, wasps and hornets inject a venom into the skin when they sting us, which can cause pain, swelling and itchiness in the area.
- Bites from bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and fire ants are typically the most troublesome.
- South African paper wasps, or hornets as they are also called, are often encountered underneath overhangs such as the eaves of roofs but do not form very big groups.
- The insects most likely to cause allergic reactions are wasps, honeybees, hornets, yellow jackets and ants.
Phrases
a hornets' nest
A situation fraught with difficulties or complications.
一大堆麻烦，困境the move has stirred up a hornets' nest of academic fear and loathing这一措施引起了学术界恐慌与憎恶的一大堆麻烦。
- The US has not only disturbed a hornets' nest; it keeps on poking it.
- It is cynical, but I think they enjoy stirring up a hornets' nest.
- Or, if the allegations are substantiated and he can deliver, then that stirs up a whole new hornets' nest.
- What you've done needed doing, but I'm thinking it's likely to be like kicking a hornets' nest when word of it gets out.
- Before I poke my stick into that little hornets' nest, I'm going to declare an interest in both sides.
- In doing so, he seems to have stirred up a hornets' nest.
- Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has stirred a real hornets' nest with his call to scrap the FA Academy system.
- To push that theological line, however, is still to stir up a hornets' nest.
- Discount broker TD Waterhouse has stirred up a hornets' nest with the announcement that it will introduce margin trading into the UK.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz whacked a hornets' nest in 2002 with the publication of Globalization and Its Discontents.
difficulty, issue, trouble, worry, complication, difficult situation, mess, muddle, mix-up
Origin
Old English hyrnet, of Germanic origin; related to German Hornisse. The form of the word was probably influenced by Middle Dutch and Middle Low German hornte.
Rhymes
cornet
Definition of hornet in US English:
hornet
nounˈhôrnətˈhɔrnət
A large stinging wasp that typically nests in hollow trees.
Vespa and other genera, family Vespidae: several species, including the giant hornet (V. crabro) and the bald-faced (or white-faced) hornet (V. maculata)
- The insects most likely to cause allergic reactions are wasps, honeybees, hornets, yellow jackets and ants.
- Bites from bees, wasps, hornets, yellow jackets and fire ants are typically the most troublesome.
- Insects such as bees, wasps and hornets inject a venom into the skin when they sting us, which can cause pain, swelling and itchiness in the area.
- South African paper wasps, or hornets as they are also called, are often encountered underneath overhangs such as the eaves of roofs but do not form very big groups.
- A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
Phrases
a hornets' nest
A situation fraught with difficulties or complications.
一大堆麻烦，困境the move has stirred up a hornets' nest of academic fear and loathing这一措施引起了学术界恐慌与憎恶的一大堆麻烦。
- The US has not only disturbed a hornets' nest; it keeps on poking it.
- What you've done needed doing, but I'm thinking it's likely to be like kicking a hornets' nest when word of it gets out.
- Or, if the allegations are substantiated and he can deliver, then that stirs up a whole new hornets' nest.
- In doing so, he seems to have stirred up a hornets' nest.
- To push that theological line, however, is still to stir up a hornets' nest.
- It is cynical, but I think they enjoy stirring up a hornets' nest.
- Before I poke my stick into that little hornets' nest, I'm going to declare an interest in both sides.
- Joseph E. Stiglitz whacked a hornets' nest in 2002 with the publication of Globalization and Its Discontents.
- Discount broker TD Waterhouse has stirred up a hornets' nest with the announcement that it will introduce margin trading into the UK.
- Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has stirred a real hornets' nest with his call to scrap the FA Academy system.
difficulty, issue, trouble, worry, complication, difficult situation, mess, muddle, mix-up
Origin
Old English hyrnet, of Germanic origin; related to German Hornisse. The form of the word was probably influenced by Middle Dutch and Middle Low German hornte.