bee-eater
食蜂者,食蜂人,食蜂族,食蜂鸟
Definitions
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- : any of several colorful birds of the family Meropidae, of the Old World tropics, that feed on bees and other insects.
Examples
But two things are clear in this tail-eater of a case: First, there seems to be plenty of guilt but hardly a criminal in sight.
It features a young girl at a spelling bee who is asked to spell “Hagan.”
How could anyone think that their dislike of the Bee Gees made anything about Disco Demolition Night acceptable?
When it comes to food, are you an adventurous, nose-to-tail kind of eater?
In an ad called “Spelling Bee,” a young child spells “Pryor” as “O-B-A-M-A,” to which the judge says, “Close enough.”
In the old days every great man kept a toad-eater; sometimes his functions were highly paid—Wolff's are, I fancy.
About an hour after resuming their walk, the major went off in hot pursuit of an enormous bee, which he saw humming round a bush.
But like the bee, while impelled by an instinct that makes it search for sugar, it sucks in therewith its solid sustenance.
I am not quite certain that the bee does exactly do this; but it is just the kind of thing that the bee is likely to do.
When he first worked her she had the old bee-but boiler, 24 feet in diameter.