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honeybee

/huhn-ee-bee/US // ˈhʌn iˌbi //UK // (ˈhʌnɪˌbiː) //

蜜蜂,蜜蜂窝,蜂,蜂蜜蜂

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any bee that collects and stores honey, especially Apis mellifera.

Examples

  • Fecal spotting is the first clear example of honeybees using tools, say Mattila and Otis.

  • She’s a honeybee biologist at Wellesley College in Massachusetts who also worked on the research.

  • We know that mammals like humans, elephants, and even honeybees have ritualized ways of disposing of their dead, and that might be what’s happening with these fossils, she says.

  • About a third of global agricultural output depends on pollination from animals, particularly honeybees, and the precipitous decline in bee populations is one of the many pressing threats to humanity.

  • He is an expert on honeybee biology in Ontario, Canada at the University of Guelph.

  • The federal government plans to spend up to $80 million to fund research in connection with honeybee depopulation syndrome.

  • "Or maybe she wasn't a honeybee at all," I suggested, gloomily.

  • Once he disturbed a honeybee in the late afternoon, drunken and senseless on the fragrant flowers.

  • Sometimes he does eat a honeybee, it is true, but it must be because he mistakes it for a large fly.

  • But Lem was not there, and she continued on to the old honeybee tree, where he sat on a log in deep meditation.

  • When they reached the old honeybee tree, they saw Slab cavorting down to meet them.