genus Apis

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Noun1.genus Apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybeesgenus Apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybees
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Apidae, family Apidae - honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
Apis mellifera, honeybee - social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
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Beekeeping or Apiculture is the maintenance of bee colonies, commonly in man-made hives, most of such bees are honeybees in the the genus Apis.
Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Apis inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence data.
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