💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Killer bee"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| africanized beenoun | A hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis), and known for being defensive and aggressive. |
| africanized honey beenoun | Synonym of Africanized bee. |
| apis mellifera adansonii | (Western African bee) a subspecies of the Western honey bee with probably the largest range of Apis mellifera in Africa, belonging to the A (Africa) Lineage of honey bees. |
| apis mellifera scutellatanoun | a strain of bees that originated in brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive african bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the african bee; now spread as far north as texas |
| bumble beenoun | Alternative spelling of bumblebee. [Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.] |
| bumble-beenoun | Alternative spelling of bumblebee. [Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.] |
| hive beenoun | The common honey bee. |
| bumblebeenoun | Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus. |
| apple beenoun | (US) A social gathering of farmers to help gather in the apple harvest, or process the fruit. |
| bee treenoun | A tree inhabited by a colony of honey bees. |
| honeybeenoun | Alternative form of honey bee. [Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.] |
| bumbeenoun | (Scotland) Alternative form of bumblebee. [Any of several species of large bee in the genus Bombus.] |
| blood beenoun | A black-and-red bee of the genus Sphecodes. |
| beekeepnoun | (very rare) A beekeeper. |
| carder beenoun | (entomology) Common name mainly applied to some Bombus species in the northern hemisphere, where they occur widely and are the most familiar species of bees that exhibit carding activity in their nest building, rather than genera such as Anthidium in the Megachilidae, some of which occur in the Northern hemisphere as well and similarly exhibit carding activity . |
| queen beenoun | A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees. |
| meat beenoun | (Canada, US, informal) The yellowjacket. |
| apple-beenoun | Alternative form of apple bee. [(southwest England) A wasp.] |
| worker beenoun | A sterile bee whose specialty is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen. |
| beeswarmnoun | A swarm of bees. |
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