queen bee
noun
a fertile female bee.
queen bees
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pluralof queen bee.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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For years, queen bees appeared to offer one of biology's simplest examples of development: special food creates a special insect.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
He said it threatened to disrupt the movement of queen bees, which lay all the eggs in the business's honey-producing hives - of which there are more than 125.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2025
But a few pages into Kristina Sigunsdotter’s charming, funny, deceptively deep middle grade novel, “The Secrets of Cricket Karlsson,” it becomes clear that queen bees are a global phenomenon.
From New York Times ● Mar. 25, 2022
Researchers artificially inseminated queen bees and found that they became less responsive to light and were more likely to get lost on mating flights than queens that were given saline.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2019
She’s a girl who dates guys like Ryan Cross, baseball star, and sits with Amanda Monk and the other queen bees at lunch.
From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven
