bumblebee
noun
any of several large, hairy social bees of the family Apidae.
bumble bee
-
a variation of
bumblebee.
Example Sentences
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Six bumble bee colonies foraged in a shared arena where they could approach feeders that either had ants nearby or had no ants at all.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
Jepsen and a group of other scientists petitioned the federal government to list the Franklin’s bumble bee as endangered in 2010 and in 2021 the species was listed.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 24, 2023
About half of the 45 bumble bee species in the United States seem to be in trouble.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2023
They include the black bear, Western scrub jay, California flannel brush, California bumble bee, California halibut, Northern elephant seal, Dungeness crab, California bay tree, Western spadefoot toad, and the endangered black abalone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2023
The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to cockchafer, to stag- beetle.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
