hive bee


noun
  1. another name for a honeybee

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How to use hive bee in a sentence

  • The hive bee, the most communal in habit, shows the highest traits of intelligent activity.

    Man And His Ancestor | Charles Morris
  • Besides, the well-known story of the Hive-bee should make us wary of rejecting paradoxical suppositions.

    More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri Fabre
  • There ought to be honey in the honeysuckle, but I have never seen the hive bee make any attempt to get it.

    A Year in the Fields | John Burroughs
  • The male of the hive-bee is much thicker and more clumsy than either the female or the worker; but in Halictus Latr.

  • But the female wasp does not pass her entire life in idleness as a queen, like the mother hive bee.

    The Insect World | Louis Figuier