HONEYBEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does honeybee mean? 

• HONEYBEE (noun)
  The noun HONEYBEE has 1 sense:

1. social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

  Familiarity information: HONEYBEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HONEYBEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Apis mellifera; honeybee

Hypernyms ("honeybee" is a kind of...):

bee (any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "honeybee"):

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

black bee; German bee (dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin)

Carniolan bee (greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition)

Italian bee (yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits)

Holonyms ("honeybee" is a member of...):

Apis; genus Apis (type genus of the Apidae: honeybees)

 Context examples 

In this new effort, the researchers wondered how the honeybees knew what to do when adverse conditions arose.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Further research will be needed to determine the agent’s precise mechanisms of toxicity and to assess its impact on humans, as well as on honeybee colonies and other beneficial insects.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

B. alvei, also known as Paenibacillus alvei, is found in soil and honeybee colonies, and is one of the causes of European foulbrood disease.

(Bacillus alvei, NCI Thesaurus)

The model is effective in diverse range of laboratory species such as honeybees, worms, flies, rats, and canines.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

The phenethyl alcohol ester of caffeic acid and a bioactive component of honeybee hive propolis, with antineoplastic, cytoprotective and immunomodulating activities.

(Caffeic Acid Phenethyl Ester, NCI Thesaurus)

Human cooperation is crucial to honeyguides because bees’ nests are often hidden in inaccessible crevices high up in trees – and honeybees sting ferociously.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Topically applied VU041 wasn’t toxic to adult honeybees.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

Once a year, honeybees, led by a queen, leave their nests in droves to find a new home.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers discovered the means by which honeybees keep their temporary clumps intact during adverse weather conditions, confirming their theory about bees’ behavior under stressful conditions.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

To test this theory, the group created a computer simulation of the honeybees and their cluster and then gave those on the outer surface the ability to feel stress and to react to it by moving to a position of higher stress.

(Bees Help Researchers Confirm Theory about Maintaining Protective Clumps under Tough Conditions, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)