A non-commissioned soldier willing to serve any state or person who will hire him.

Any fly of the insect family Stratiomyidae, which resemble wasps.

Pagurus bernhardus (common hermit crab), of Europe. / Coenobita clypeatus (Caribbean hermit crab). / Dotilla myctiroides, a true crab from South-east Asia.

(US, military, historical) An African-American soldier in the US Army, serving in one of a number of segregated units under white officers, in the period after the US Civil War up to the final racial integration of the US military, at the end of the Korean War.

plural of buffalo soldier

(military) A soldier who fights on foot; an infantryman / (figuratively, by extension) A rank and file member of an institution, or supporter of a cause.

plural of freshwater soldier

A new military recruit without experience of combat. / Stratiotes aloides, a European aquatic plant with sword-shaped leaves.

Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, formerly and sometimes used to stanch the flow of blood.

plural of Canadian soldier