noun
- A highly contentious or hazardous situation.
- usage: "talk of invading Iraq stirred up a political hornets' nest"
- synonyms: hornet's nest
- Habitation for wasps or hornets.
- synonyms: wasp's nest, wasps' nest, hornet's nest
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