honeybee

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8

Definition of honeybee

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of honey bee.
    “In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.”
    “The bees’ cubital index, a method for differentiating breeds of honeybees, also confirmed they are “more of an indigenous bee” than anything else, he said, but their adaptations have made them unique and peculiar, and they have very little banding. “Supposedly, wild tree-nesting honeybees which can sustain themselves do not exist, so nobody knows what type of wild, self-sustaining honeybee is actually left in the UK.””

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Etymology

From honey + bee.

Hooks

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