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- noun Plural form of
humblebee .
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Examples
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The number of humblebees in any district depends in a great measure upon the number of field mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Col. Newman, who has long attended to the habits of humble-bees, believes that more than two-thirds of them are thus destroyed all over England.
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Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats; and Col. Newman says, Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humblebees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.
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I find from experiments that humblebees are almost indispensable to the fertilisation of the heartsease (Viola tricolor), for other bees do not visit this flower.
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Mrs. Hastings fluttered ponderously, as humblebees fly.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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The second crops of clover were already high; in them humblebees were hard at work; and, above, the white-throated swallows dipped and soared.
Beyond John Galsworthy 1900
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The second crops of clover were already high; in them humblebees were hard at work; and, above, the white-throated swallows dipped and soared.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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The fish, the humblebees, the birds, and a mouse which scampered away to its hole amid the rocks, -- all these might have found better living elsewhere.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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(Rather high-minded humblebees, they seemed, more than five thousand feet above the sea!)
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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We know better; and so do the rabbits and the humblebees.
Birds in the Bush Bradford Torrey 1877
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It was on a beautiful June morning in a charming French garden, where the warm, sweet atmosphere was laden with the scent of lilac and syringa, and gay with butterflies and dragon-flies and humblebees, that
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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