hive bee
noun
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 MorrisBesides, the well-known story of the Hive-bee should make us wary of rejecting paradoxical suppositions.
More Hunting Wasps | J. Henri FabreThere 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 BurroughsThe male of the hive-bee is much thicker and more clumsy than either the female or the worker; but in Halictus Latr.
An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. III (of 4) | William KirbyBut the female wasp does not pass her entire life in idleness as a queen, like the mother hive bee.
The Insect World | Louis Figuier
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