bald-faced hornet

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   North American hornet

   Synonymswhite-faced hornetVespula maculata

   Broaderhornet

Questions about bald-faced hornet

What does bald-faced hornet mean?

bald-faced hornet means "North American hornet".

What is another word for bald-faced hornet?

Close synonyms include white-faced hornet, Vespula maculata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bald-faced hornet a common word?

bald-faced hornet is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.