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Answer for the clue "Bee's weapon ", 7 letters:
stinger

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A stinger , or sting , is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically arthropods ) capable of injecting venom , usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal. An insect bite or sting is a break in the skin or puncture caused by an insect and ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, agent noun from sting (v.). As an animal part, from 1889; earlier in this sense was sting (n.).

Usage examples of stinger.

Afghanistan, and the factories producing Stinger missiles and recoilless artillery pieces were quite safe from Soviet attack.

Im talkin trees you cant even see roun, trees got snicks an stingers so big you dont want to think what maybe lookin at you there.

They were all over him, chewing and thrashing at the fabric of his suit with their teeth and spiny legs, digging their heads and stingers down into his flesh.

So far, there was no sign of antiair activity, not even of a Stinger squad, much less anything more sophisticated.

Their only hope was to get inside the Cebu defensive screen and strike the great pegasi down by bullet or stinger, even though the latter method would mean their own deaths as well.

When the attack began, Claudia manipulated her model Hinds and there were enthusiastic cheers from the watching Shanganes as one by one they were brought crashing to earth by volleys of Stinger missiles.

Once the Hinds had been destroyed, they must have abandoned their Stingers and rushed up the hill to join the sack of the laager.

Although Nora knew they had to be holographically generated, like everything else, they looked amazingly real as they came straight at her, each with a vicious stinger extruded from its abdomen, gleaming with venom.

The demonlord seized the stinger and placed one of its peds on her mantle, next to the wound.

The old prop-job planes of the Rebels could not hope to evade any kind of Stinger or surface-to-air missiles.

Over the past several months I have fired more than 5,000 Stingers in a variety of rimfire arms, both domestic and foreign.

In selecting your survival stores, add some high velocity solids or some semi-hollow points to your Stingers and you should be well supplied for any chores that you could reasonably expect your rimfire firearm to perform.

Factory starts work as soon as we shut down the stinger and finish filing all the paperwork via our lawyers.

Thirty specialised probes hung on telemetric cables from the underside of the gondola, dangling like the venom-tipped stingers of some grotesque aerial jellyfish.

People with lobster claws instead of hands, legs fused or amputated to make room for stingers or spinnerets, heads that in no way matched the bodies they were attached to.