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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
honeybee
noun
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▪ Besides the familiar honeybee, &.
▪ Meanwhile, von Frisch had looked at the honeybee dance more closely.
▪ One behavioural example that approaches this degree of elementary simplicity concerns hygienic behaviour in honeybees.
▪ People and honeybees have a long history together.
▪ So if you wanted blueberries in Bio2, you needed honeybees.
▪ The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands.
▪ Von Frisch did not doubt the odour theory of how honeybees find food until the 1940s.
▪ We've got hives full of honey for the right kind of honeybees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honeybee

Honeybee \Hon"ey*bee`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee ( Apis mellifica), the Italian bee ( Apis ligustica), and the Arabiab bee ( Apis fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.

Wiktionary
honeybee

n. (alternative form of honey bee English)

WordNet
honeybee

n. social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces [syn: Apis mellifera]

Wikipedia
HoneyBee

HoneyBee is a 2016 horror comedy Feature Film from Furiex Films, distributed by Candy Factory Films. It is Director Nicki Harris's first Feature film and was filmed entirely on the location stated in the film—in Dexter, New York, and Pillar Point on Lake Ontario—with some shots being done in Cape Vincent, New York. The high school in the film is a real high school and actually rests on Cemetery Road, though many assumed that was a fake sign it was very real and still stands. Real students were used as extras while BreakThrough Casting and Nicki Harris brought in professional actors from NYC, Atlanta, Memphis and LA.

The film stars Jane Wieldin from the GoGo's.

Usage examples of "honeybee".

Swarms of ferocious honeybees that have been known to kill both humans and animals are moving toward the United States from Brazil at the rate of 200 miles a There seems to be no natural barrier to block the bees, and they could be in North America within four to six years, says a study financed by the Agriculture Department.

Like most farmers, Harry knew that her best friends apart from the domesticated animals were owls, blacksnakes, bats, honeybees, praying mantises, most spiders, swallowtails, and purple martins.

While the capsules still floated high above the ground, small openings ejected newly revived impregnated queens of the honeybee, the Asian carpenter bee, and the bumblebee, as well as fireflies, caddis flies, nonbiting midges, cockroaches, and lac bugs.

One got caught between my belly and my belt, stinging me over and over, something bumblebees can do that honeybees can’t.

But here they were just one of a varit insects, like the butterflies flicking their bright colors in a qu dance across the tops of the fescue, and the harmless drone fly resembled a stinging honeybee, hovering over a buttercup.

The chapter he now chose to read was all about wild honeybees, and he entertained his listeners with sound effects: Bzzzzzzz.

From what I've learned of honeybees, that might have antagonized them.

And remember for five of those Honeybees, she’ll always be avail­able, even on her wedding day.

Shackled, walking through the perfumed things honeybees love, Paul D hears the men talking and for the first time learns his worth.

I knew it wasn’t true, and not only because honeybees probably didn’t live longer than a single year (except maybe for the queens.

It couldn’t be true, because honeybees died when they stung, and even at nine I knew it.

Janie dutifully joined the queue, but when the corridor opened into a vast sunlit atrium she strode off on her own, leaving the children and teachers to gape at monarchs in butterfly cages and an interactive display of honeybees dancing.

Even some insects have been domesticated, notably Eurasia's honeybee and China's silkworm moth, kept for honey and silk, respectively.