bee meaning

• Noun: bee  bee
  1. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 
  2. A social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

  Sounds like: be, B

  Derived forms: bees

  See also: apian

  Type of: hymenopter, hymenopteran, hymenopteron, hymenopterous insect, social affair, social gathering

  Part of: Apoidea, superfamily Apoidea

  Encyclopedia: Bee Bee, Nebraska Bee, NE

• 
  [Defence]
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  [Medicine]
  n : HONEYBEE; broadly : any of numerous hymenopteran insects (superfamily Apoidea) that differ from the related wasps esp. in the heavier hairier body and in having sucking as well as chewing mouthparts, that feed on pollen and nectar, and that store both and often also honey —see AFRICANIZED BEE
  

• africanized bee:    Noun: Africanized ...
• alkali bee:    Noun: alkali beeA ...
• bee balm:     noun  A ...

Examples

1. throughout his life he had always kept bees.
2. most bees and wasps are social insects.
3. the birds were singing and the bees buzzing.
4. use a book as a bee does flowers.
5. i have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner.