hive bee
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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hive bee
▶noun see bee (sense 1).
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bee/biː/
▶noun
- 1 (also honeybee or hive bee) a stinging social insect which collects nectar and pollen from flowers and produces wax and honey. [Apis mellifera and other species.]
- 2 an insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds. [Superfamily
Apoidea .]
- 3 a meeting for communal work or amusement: a sewing bee.
– phrases
the bee's knees informal an outstandingly good person or thing.
have a bee in one's bonnet informal be preoccupied or obsessed with something.
the bee's knees informal an outstandingly good person or thing.
have a bee in one's bonnet informal be preoccupied or obsessed with something.
– origin OE bēo, of Gmc origin.
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