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AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Africanized honey bee mean? 

AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE (noun)
  The noun AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE has 1 sense:

1. a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texasplay

  Familiarity information: AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE used as a noun is very rare.


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AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Africanized bee; Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera adansonii; Apis mellifera scutellata; killer bee

Hypernyms ("Africanized honey bee" is a kind of...):

Apis mellifera; honeybee (social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces)


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