black bee
noun
Apis mellifera mellifera, a subspecies of the western honey bee.
black bees
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pluralof black bee.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Bees live in there, black bees that sting terribly, but make the best honey in the world.
From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau
The rain roared, swirling like angry black bees in the wild wind.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Several times we saw them battling with large black bees who frequent the same flowers, and may be seen often to interfere provokingly.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston
Above its lintel, under mossy eaves, The mud-wasps build their cells; and in the floor Of its neglected porch The black bees nest.
From Shapes and Shadows by Madison J. Cawein
The blossoming stalks waved in the wind, and black bees circled round them.
From Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
