Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several social bees of the genus Apis that produce honey and are native to Eurasia and Africa, especially A. mellifera, widely domesticated as a source of honey and beeswax and often kept in hives.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bee that collects and stores honey; specifically, the hive-bee, Apis mellifica. See cuts under
bee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (
Apis mellifica ), the Italian bee (Apis ligustica ), and the Arabiab bee (Apis fasciata ). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
honey bee .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
Etymologies
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Examples
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Many thought the chinese were using it to treat foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies.
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These two mites by and large play the biggest part in honeybee health issues.
beekeeper i have heard about your honey and how good it is what i wanna know is how can i get some 2009
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These two mites by and large play the biggest part in honeybee health issues.
beekeeper i have heard about your honey and how good it is what i wanna know is how can i get some 2009
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Many thought the chinese were using it to treat foulbrood disease in honeybee colonies.
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In fact, about one-third of the human diet comes from insect-pollinated plants, and the honeybee is responsible for 80 percent of that pollination, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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The honeybee is an introduced species in the Americas.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning insect biologist E.O. Wilson of Harvard said the honeybee is nature’s "workhorse — and we took it for granted."
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I have even heard the completely esoteric concept that the demise of the honeybee is a sign of the 2012 doomsday prophesy.
Joan Brunwasser: Magazine Publisher Moonlights as Urban Beekeeper Joan Brunwasser 2011
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I have even heard the completely esoteric concept that the demise of the honeybee is a sign of the 2012 doomsday prophesy.
Joan Brunwasser: Magazine Publisher Moonlights as Urban Beekeeper Joan Brunwasser 2011
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I have even heard the completely esoteric concept that the demise of the honeybee is a sign of the 2012 doomsday prophesy.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Joan Brunwasser 2011
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