black bee

[blak bee]

noun

plural

black bees 

1. Apis mellifera mellifera, a subspecies of the western honey bee.

2. any bee that has a black or dark brown body.

Example Sentences

The bees, known in the region as the Canary black bee, used propolis, a resinlike mixture sometimes known as bee glue, to seal themselves inside the hive, he said.

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The hives were established in the castle grounds last July in a bid to boost numbers of British black bees.

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Elsewhere, she has bikers “buzzing in pocketed formations … like clouds of black bees.”

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The rain roared, swirling like angry black bees in the wild wind.

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Something that looked like a giant black bee whooshed by them and careened around the curve ahead.

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