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APIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees

Synonyms:

Apidae; family Apidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

arthropod family (any of the arthropods)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Apidae" is a member of...):

Apoidea; superfamily Apoidea (bees)

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