apis_mellifera (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *Apis mellifera*:
NOUN	animal	Apis mellifera, honeybee	social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

English > *Apis mellifera*: 1 sense > noun 1, animal
Meaning	social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces.
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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