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• honeybee

語源

Inherited from 中期英語 hony bee.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhʌni ˌbiː/

名詞

honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. Any of many subspecies of bee, in seven species of genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

   Synonym: honeymaker (rare; often ludic or poetic when used at all)

   Hypernyms: bee < insect < arthropod < bug (broad sense) < invertebrate < animal < creature

   Hyponyms: eastern honey bee, western honey bee, giant honey bee; many more at list of Apis mellifera subspecies

   Coordinate terms: bumblebee, stingless bee, mason bee, carpenter bee, leafcutter bee, sweat bee

派生語

• black dwarf honey bee (Apis andreniformis)
• Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
• Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica)
• Caucasian honey bee (Apis mellifera caucasia)
• dwarf honeybee (Apis florea)
• East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
• eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)
• European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
• giant honey bee (Apis dorsata)
• Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica)
• Himalayan giant honey bee (Apis laboriosa)
• Himalayan honey bee (Apis dorsata laboriosa)
• Indonesian honey bee (Apis dorsata binghami)
• Koschevnikov's honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi)
• Maltese honey bee (Apis mellifera ruttneri)
• Philippine honey bee (Apis nigrocincta)
• red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea)
• western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
  • For more see List of Apis mellifera subspecies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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参考

発音

名詞

honeybee (plural honeybees)

1. Alternative form of honey bee.
   • 2007 November 13, Natalie Angier, “In Hollywood Hives, the Males Rule”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 17 May 2021:

     In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.

   • 2021 November 7, Donna Ferguson, “‘No one knew they existed’: wild heirs of lost British honeybee found at Blenheim”, in The Guardian Online‎, archived from the original on 28 April 2022:

     The bees’ cubital index, a method for differentiating breeds of honeybees, also confirmed they are “more of an indigenous bee” than anything else, he said, but their adaptations have made them unique and peculiar, and they have very little banding. “Supposedly, wild tree-nesting honeybees which can sustain themselves do not exist, so nobody knows what type of wild, self-sustaining honeybee is actually left in the UK.”