hornet

名词 hornet:

1. large stinging paper wasp

1. His letter to the newspaper about racialism in schools has stirred up a real hornet's nest.
   他给报纸写的关於学校中存在种族歧视现象的信件引起了很大的麻烦。

hor.net

n.（名词）
Any of various large stinging wasps of the family Vespidae, chiefly of the generaVespa and Vespula, that characteristically build large papery nests.
胡蜂：黄蜂科，主要是胡蜂属 和 大黄蜂属 的一种有刺大黄蜂，这类黄蜂以修筑巨大的纸质蜂巢为特点

来源：
Middle English hornet
中古英语 hornet
alteration probably influenced by horn [horn] * see horn
可能受 horn的影响 [角] *参见 horn
of hernet
hernet的变化
from Old English hyrnet * see ker-
源自 古英语 hyrnet *参见 ker-