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honeybee
/ ˈhʌnɪˌbiː /
noun
- any of various social honey-producing bees of the genus Apis, esp A. mellifera, which has been widely domesticated as a source of honey and beeswax Also calledhive bee
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The federal government plans to spend up to $80 million to fund research in connection with honeybee depopulation syndrome.
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"Or maybe she wasn't a honeybee at all," I suggested, gloomily.
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Once he disturbed a honeybee in the late afternoon, drunken and senseless on the fragrant flowers.
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Sometimes he does eat a honeybee, it is true, but it must be because he mistakes it for a large fly.
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But Lem was not there, and she continued on to the old honeybee tree, where he sat on a log in deep meditation.
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When they reached the old honeybee tree, they saw Slab cavorting down to meet them.
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