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white-faced hornet

 
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–noun
See under hornet.
Origin:
1890–95, Americanism
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hor⋅net

  [hawr-nit]
–noun
any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet), introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet), of North America.
Origin:
bef. 900; ME harnete, OE hyrnet(u); c. OHG hornaz (> G Horniss); akin to horn
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Word Origin & History

hornet 
O.E. hyrnetu, hurnitu "large wasp, beetle," probably from P.Gmc. base *khurz-nut- (cf. Du. horzel "hornet"), from PIE imitative (buzzing) root *krs-, as preserved in O.C.S. srusa, Lith. szirszu "wasp." On this theory, the Eng. word (as well as Ger. Hornisse) was altered by influence of horn, to suggest either "horner" (from the sting) or "horn-blower" (from the buzz). Cf. also O.S. hornobero "hornet," lit. "trumpeter."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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