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Stingless

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Sting´less
a.1.Having no sting.
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Adj.1.stingless - without a sting
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On the day of their arrival he was sitting by the stream, and Jim was extracting the honey from the nest of a stingless bee which is to be found in the desert, on the top of a bank immediately above him.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
' said De Bracy; ``of stingless drones rather; a band of lazy knaves, who take to the wood, and destroy the venison rather than labour for their maintenance.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Both gods and men are angry with a man who lives idle, for in nature he is like the stingless drones who waste the labour of the bees, eating without working; but let it be your care to order your work properly, that in the right season your barns may be full of victual.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
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