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FAMILY APIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Apidae mean?
• FAMILY APIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY APIDAE has 1 sense:
1. honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
Familiarity information: FAMILY APIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Apidae; family Apidae
Hypernyms ("family Apidae" is a kind of...):
arthropod family (any of the arthropods)
Meronyms (members of "family Apidae"):
Apis; genus Apis (type genus of the Apidae: honeybees)
genus Xylocopa; Xylocopa (carpenter bees)
Bombus; genus Bombus (bumblebees)
genus Psithyrus; Psithyrus (a large bee that resembles the bumblebee but lacks pollen-collecting apparatus and a worker caste)
Holonyms ("family Apidae" is a member of...):
Apoidea; superfamily Apoidea (bees)
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