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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A condition chiefly affecting the hives of domesticated honeybees, characterized by the sudden disappearance and death of so many worker bees that the colony cannot be maintained.
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- noun a mysterious and widespread
phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies ofbees , caused by beekeepers providing their bees with disease-causingpropolis .
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sionnach commented on the word colony collapse disorder
Where have all the honeybees gone? Gone to CCD, every one.
A runner-up for this year's New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year. See also beepidemiology.
November 13, 2007
sionnach commented on the word colony collapse disorder
Fellow wordies!
Why do you remain oblivious, uncaring, indifferent to the plight of the bees? The poor dying bees. What kind of ignoble, struthious behavior is this?
Do you care more about Tasmanian devils than bees? We need the bees.
Even Häagen-Dazs cares about the bees
.As I am sure Dü Hüsker Dü.
Won't you help stop the apian carnage now? List colony collapse disorder while you still can
January 10, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word colony collapse disorder
This bee-ing Wordie, maybe we're just more interested in B-keeping.
January 10, 2009
reesetee commented on the word colony collapse disorder
You make an excellent and convincing argument, sionnach. Added.
*ouch!* Who let those bees in here??
January 11, 2009