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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 Texas
Familiarity information: AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• 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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