bee-hive

  • 111worker bee — noun A sterile bee whose speciality is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen …

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  • 112the bee's knees — Meaning Excellent the highest quality. Origin Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacs on their legs. The allusion is to the concentrated goodness to be found around the bee s knee …

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  • 113worker bee — noun sterile bee specialized to collect food and maintain the hive (Freq. 2) • Hypernyms: ↑worker • Member Holonyms: ↑Apoidea, ↑superfamily Apoidea …

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  • 114stingless bee — noun : any of numerous social bees of Melipona and related genera (family Apidae) mainly of tropical America that lack a sting and store honey in waxen cells much like the hive bee to which they are related * * * any of certain social, honey… …

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  • 115beehive — bee|hive [ˈbi:haıv] n 1.) a structure where ↑bees are kept for producing ↑honey 2.) a way of arranging a woman s hair in a high pile on the top of her head, which was popular in the 1960s …

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  • 116beehive — bee|hive [ bi,haıv ] noun count 1. ) a structure in which you keep BEES, and from which you collect their HONEY 2. ) a hairstyle for women in which the hair is held upright in a tall round shape, popular especially in the 1960s …

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  • 117beehive — bee•hive [[t]ˈbiˌhaɪv[/t]] n. 1) ent a natural or constructed dwelling place for bees 2) a crowded, busy place 3) something resembling the shape of an artificial beehive, as a domelike hairdo for women • Etymology: 1325–75 …

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  • 118Beehive — A beehive is, in a general sense, an enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis ) live and raise their young. Natural beehives (typically referred to simply as nests ) are naturally occurring structures occupied by honey… …

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  • 120hymenopteran — /huy meuh nop teuhr euhn/, adj. 1. hymenopterous. n. 2. Also, hymenopter. a hymenopterous insect. [1875 80; HYMENOPTER + AN] * * * ▪ insect Introduction   any member of the third largest and perhaps the most beneficial to humans of all insect… …

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