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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See bee.

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  • noun A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.
  • noun idiomatic, colloquial The most important or dominant woman in an organisation or situation.

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  • noun fertile egg-laying female bee

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  • devourer of grandchildren *shudder*

    July 3, 2009