(also honeybee or hive bee)
a stinging social insect which collects nectar and pollen from flowers and produces wax and honey.
[Apis mellifera and other species.]
an insect of a large group to which the honeybee belongs, including many solitary as well as social kinds.
[Superfamily Apoidea.]
a meeting for communal work or amusement:
a sewing bee.
Phrase
the bee's knees informal an outstandingly good person or thing.
have a bee in one's bonnet informal be preoccupied or obsessed with something.
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