yellow jacket

Questions about yellow jacket

What does yellow jacket mean?

yellow jacket means "a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for yellow jacket?

Close synonyms include pentobarbital sodium, pentobarbital, Nembutal, yellow hornet, Vespula maculifrons. 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 yellow jacket a common word?

yellow jacket is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.