vespula maculata

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   North American hornet

   Synonymsbald-faced hornetwhite-faced hornet

   Broaderhornet

Questions about vespula maculata

What does vespula maculata mean?

vespula maculata means "North American hornet".

What is another word for vespula maculata?

Close synonyms include bald-faced hornet, white-faced 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 vespula maculata a common word?

vespula maculata 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.