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bumblebee [ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː], humblebee n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any large hairy social bee of the genus Bombus and related genera, of temperate regions: family Apidae [from bumble2 + bee1] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it. Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse let down the blind, chased a fly out from under the muslin canopy of the crib, and a bumblebee struggling on the window-frame, and sat down waving a faded branch of birch over the mother and the baby. I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. |
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