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bumblebee

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bum·ble·bee  (bmbl-b)
n.
Any of various large, hairy, social bees of the genus Bombus that nest underground.
[bumble + bee.]
bumblebee
Noun
a large hairy bee [obsolete bumble to buzz]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bumblebeebumblebee - robust hairy social bee of temperate regions
humblebee
bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
Bombus, genus Bombus - bumblebees
Translations
bumblebee [ˈbʌmblbiː] n → abejorro
bumblebee [ˈbʌmblbiː] n → bourdon m
bumblebee [ˈbʌmblbiː] n → Hummel f
bumblebee [ˈbʌmblbiː] n (ZOOL) → bombo


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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.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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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