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APIS MELLIFERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
Synonyms:
Apis mellifera; honeybee
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Apis mellifera" 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 "Apis mellifera"):
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 ("Apis mellifera" is a member of...):
Apis; genus Apis (type genus of the Apidae: honeybees)
