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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The rain roared, swirling like angry black bees in the wild wind.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
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
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
A black honeybee crawled out, rose into the air, and started due south; another followed, then three, then a dozen; and then the hive vomited a swarm of black bees which sped southward.
From Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
The blossoming stalks waved in the wind, and black bees circled round them.
From Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey
