Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Yellow jacket   /jˈɛloʊ dʒˈækət/   Listen
Yellow jacket

noun
1.
A barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic.  Synonyms: Nembutal, pentobarbital, pentobarbital sodium.
2.
Small yellow-marked social wasp commonly nesting in the ground.  Synonyms: Vespula maculifrons, yellow hornet.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Yellow jacket" Quotes from Famous Books



... A most rakish looking wooden button, noiselessly stealthly and sly, gave entrance to this treasury of dainties; and then what a rare array of disintegrated meals intoxicated the vision! There was the Athlete of the Dairy, commonly called Fresh Butter, in his gay yellow jacket, looking wore to the knife. There was turgid old Brown Sugar, who had evidently heard the advice, go to the ant, thou sluggard! and, and mistaking the last word for Sugared, was going as deliberately as possible. There was the vivacious Cheese, in the ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various



Words linked to "Yellow jacket" :   Nembutal, pentobarbital, yellow hornet, barbiturate, Vespula, pentobarbital sodium, Vespula maculifrons, genus Vespula, hornet



Copyright © 2024 e-Free Translation.com