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horse guard

horse guard is the ellipsis of horse guard wasp.

Meaning of horse guard wasp

Noun

horse guard wasp (plural horse guard wasps)

  1. A large sand wasp (Stictia carolina) of the eastern United States which preys primarily on horseflies.
    Synonyms:
    horse guard

Noun capitalized: Horse Guard

Horse Guard (plural Horse Guards)

  1. A member of any of various cavalry regiments.

Forms of horse guard

pluralhorse guards
pluralHorse Guards

Questions about horse guard

What does horse guard mean?
Horse guard means a member of any of various cavalry regiments.
What is horse guard the ellipsis of?
Horse guard is the ellipsis of horse guard wasp.
What part of speech is horse guard?
Horse guard is a noun.
What is the plural of horse guard?
The plural of horse guard is horse guards.

Words near horse guard in the dictionary

  1. horse gentians
  2. horse girl
  3. horse girls
  4. horse gram
  5. horse grams
  6. horse guard
  7. horse guard wasp
  8. horse guard wasps
  9. horse guards
  10. horse head fiddle
  11. horse head fiddles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horse guard (page history and authors); Horse Guard (page history and authors); horse guard wasp (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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