Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
bumblebee and humblebee.
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Examples
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And he invited a humming-bee and a gay butterfly to partake of his feast, but his favorite guest was a blue dragon-fly.
Good Stories for Holidays Frances Jenkins Olcott 1917
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And he invited a humming-bee and a gay butterfly to partake of his feast, but his favorite guest was a blue dragon-fly.
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Sometimes he invited a humming-bee, oftener a gay butterfly, to partake his feast; but his favourite guest was the blue dragon-fly.
Peter Schlemihl Adelbert von Chamisso 1809
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