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yellow jacket
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yellow jacket has 2 senses
- yellow jacket(n = noun.artifact) nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium - a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic; Array is a kind of barbiturate
- yellow jacket(n = noun.animal) vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet - small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground; Array is a kind of hornet
is a member of genus vespula, vespula
THESAURUS
yellow jacket
Amytal, Amytal pill, Demerol, Dolophine, H, Luminal, Luminal pill, M, Mickey Finn, Nembutal, Nembutal pill, Seconal, Seconal pill, Tuinal, Tuinal pill, alcohol, amobarbital sodium, analgesic, anodyne, barb, barbiturate, barbiturate pill, bee, black stuff, blue, blue angel, blue devil, blue heaven, blue velvet, bumblebee, calmative, chloral hydrate, codeine, codeine cough syrup, depressant, depressor, dolly, downer, drone, goofball, hard stuff, heroin, honeybee, hop, hornet, horse, hypnotic, junk, knockout drops, laudanum, liquor, lotus, meperidine, methadone, morphia, morphine, narcotic, opiate, opium, pacifier, pain killer, paregoric, pen yan, phenobarbital, phenobarbital sodium, purple heart, queen, queen bee, quietener, rainbow, red, scag, secobarbital sodium, sedative, shit, sleep-inducer, sleeper, sleeping draught, sleeping pill, smack, sodium thiopental, somnifacient, soother, soothing syrup, soporific, tar, tranquilizer, turps, wasp, white stuff, worker, yellow
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