(chiefly US) A predatory wasp with alternating black and yellow stripes around the abdomen, usually of the genera Vespula or Dolichovespula.

(idiomatic) Journalism which is sensationalistic and of questionable accuracy and taste.

plural of yellow horde

(singular only) Synonym of yellow peril

(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

(singular only) Synonym of yellow peril

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yellow, dog. / (US, especially Southern US) A Carolina dog. / (US, informal) An item or person of low value.

Any alga, of the class Xanthophyceae, that have yellow carotenoid pigments as well as chlorophyll

A type of woodpecker. (Sphyrapicus varius)

(astronomy) the time it takes for the Solar System to orbit around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, estimated to be from 225 to 250 million years.