QUEEN BEE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Fertile egg-laying female bee

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("queen bee" is a kind of...):

queen (the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs)

Holonyms ("queen bee" is a member of...):

Apoidea; superfamily Apoidea (bees)

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