vespa crabro

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   European hornet introduced into the United States

   Synonymsgiant hornet

   Broaderhornet

Questions about vespa crabro

What does vespa crabro mean?

vespa crabro means "European hornet introduced into the United States".

What is another word for vespa crabro?

Close synonyms include giant hornet. 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 vespa crabro a common word?

vespa crabro 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.