| NOUN | animal | Apis mellifera, honeybee | social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces |
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| Meaning | social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces. | |
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| Synonym | honeybee | |
| Member of | Apis, genus Apis | type genus of the Apidae |
| Narrower | Africanized bee, Africanized honey bee, killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansonii | A strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee |
| Carniolan bee | greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition | |
| Italian bee | yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits | |
| black bee, German bee | dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin | |
| Broader | bee | Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species |
| Spanish | abeja | |
| Catalan | abella de la mel, Apis mellifera | |
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