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- adjective Without
bees .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But… but… other things could be being in teh beeless bonnet other than beez!
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New blades spring up in the stubble of the wheat; the beeless clover runs and blossoms; far and wide over the meadows flows the tufted billows of the grass; and in the woods the oak-tree drops the purple and brown of his leaf and mast upon the verdure of
Aftermath James Lane Allen 1887
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Hence the character of the flowers on this beeless belt of mountain side is entirely determined by the character of the butterfly fertilisers.
Science in Arcady Grant Allen 1873
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Hence the current situation finds me (and my work colleague who is similarly keen on giving apiary a bash) beeless whilst someone else's workers collect the fruit of my Ceanothus!
Earth, Wind & Water 2010
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There’s a non-fiction book called A World Without Bees by Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum and one of our most notable novelists, the Canadian, Douglas Coupland, has written a dystopian fantasy about a beeless world.
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