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BEE KILLER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bee killer mean?
• BEE KILLER (noun)
The noun BEE KILLER has 1 sense:
1. swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing
Familiarity information: BEE KILLER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Swift predatory fly having a strong body like a bee with the proboscis hardened for sucking juices of other insects captured on the wing
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
bee killer; robber fly
Hypernyms ("bee killer" is a kind of...):
dipteran; dipteron; dipterous insect; two-winged insects (insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing)
Holonyms ("bee killer" is a member of...):
Asilidae; family Asilidae (robber flies)
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