Definitions

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  • adjective Without bees.

Etymologies

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bee +‎ -less

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Examples

  • But… but… other things could be being in teh beeless bonnet other than beez!

    They won’t find your body in a dumpster… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    It wouldn’t matter if all the bees died 2009

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