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bald-faced hornet

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Noun1.bald-faced hornetbald-faced hornet - North American hornet                
Vespula maculata, white-faced hornet
hornet - large stinging paper wasp


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Imagine, if you can, a bald-faced hornet of your earthly experience grown to the size of a prize Hereford bull, and you will have some faint conception of the ferocious appearance and awesome formidability of the winged monster that bore down upon me.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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