HyperDic: honeybee

English > 1 sense of the word honeybee:
NOUNanimalhoneybee, Apis melliferasocial bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
honeybee > pronunciation
Soundshhah'niybiy.
Rhymesab / Ab / AB ... zombie: 62 rhymes with biy...
English > honeybee: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaningsocial bee often domesticated for the honey it produces.
SynonymApis mellifera
Member ofApis, genus Apistype genus of the Apidae
NarrowerAfricanized bee, Africanized honey bee, killer bee, Apis mellifera scutellata, Apis mellifera adansoniiA strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee
Carniolan beegreyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition
Italian beeyellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
black bee, German beedark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
BroaderbeeAny of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
Spanishabeja
Catalanabella de la mel, Apis mellifera

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