AFRICANIZED HONEY BEE

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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

Synonyms:

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

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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