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Africanized bee

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  • noun a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. apis mellifera
  2. honeybee

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