honey bee

See also: honeybee

English

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honey bee

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Alternative forms

• honeybee

Etymology

From Middle English hony bee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

Hyponyms

• (species in Apis): See entry for Apis

Derived terms

• black dwarf honey bee (Apis andreniformis)
• Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
• Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica)
• Caucasian honey bee (Apis mellifera caucasia)
• dwarf honeybee (Apis florea)
• East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
• eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)
• European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
• giant honey bee (Apis dorsata)
• Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica)
• Himalayan giant honey bee (Apis laboriosa)
• Himalayan honey bee (Apis dorsata laboriosa)
• Indonesian honey bee (Apis dorsata binghami)
• Koschevnikov's honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi)
• Maltese honey bee (Apis mellifera ruttneri)
• Philippine honey bee (Apis nigrocincta)
• red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea)
• western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
  • For more see List of Apis mellifera subspecies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

honey bee

Alabama: foho Arabic: نَحْل m (naḥl), نَحْلَة الْعَسَلِ f (naḥla(t) al-ʕasali) Aramaic: Classical Syriac: ܕܒܫܬܐ f (dabbāštā) Armenian: մեղու (hy) (meġu) Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi) Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto) Bengali: মৌমাছি (bn) (mōumachi) Bulgarian: медоносна пчела f (medonosna pčela) Catalan: abella de la mel f, abella mel·lífera f Chinese: Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (zh) (mìfēng) Czech: včela medonosná (cs) f Dutch: honingbij (nl) f, bij (nl) f, imme (nl) f Esperanto: mielabelo Finnish: hunajamehiläinen (fi), tarhamehiläinen (fi), mehiläinen (fi) French: abeille à miel (fr) f, abeille (fr) f German: Honigbiene (de) f Gujarati: મધમાખી f (madhmākhī) Hebrew: דבורת הדבש f (dvorát hadvásh) Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) f (madhumakkhī) Icelandic: býfluga (is) f Indonesian: lebah madu (id) Irish: beach mheala f, seileán m (wild) Italian: ape da miele f, ape domestica (it) f Japanese: 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi) Kashmiri: ماچھ تُلٕر (māch tulụr) Korean: 꿀벌 (ko) (kkulbeol) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: مێشھەنگوین (mêşhenguyn) Northern Kurdish: mêşhingiv (ku) Malayalam: തേനീച്ച (ml) (tēnīcca) Manx: shellan molley m Marathi: मधमाशी f (madhmāśī) Navajo: tsísʼná Norwegian: Bokmål: honningbie m or f Nynorsk: honningbie f Persian: زنبور عسل (fa) (zanbur-e 'asal) Polish: pszczoła miodna (pl) f Portuguese: abelha doméstica (pt) f, abelha de mel f Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja), медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá) Scottish Gaelic: seillean-mil m, seillean-meala m, seillean-sgip m Spanish: abeja (es) f, abeja melífera (es) f, abeja de miel f Swedish: honungsbi (sv) n Tagalog: pukyot Tajik: занбӯри асал (zanbür-i asal) Telugu: తేనెటీగ (te) (tēneṭīga) Turkish: bal arısı (tr) Uyghur: ھەسەل ھەرىسى (hesel herisi), بال ھەرىسى (bal herisi) Welsh: gwenynen (cy) f, gwenynen fêl (cy) f Zazaki: hınge (diq) f

See also

• drone
• wax