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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An extensive genus of solitary bees, containing many of those large species known as carpenter-bees.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under carpenter.

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  • noun carpenter bees

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