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/ˈbiː/ · noun
A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey..
His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].
An angry Wasp th'one in a viall had, / Th'other in hers an hony-laden Bee.
Can there be a more formall, and better ordered policie, divided into so severall charges and offices, more constantly entertained, and better maintained, than that of Bees?
Ariell: / Where the Bee ſucks, there ſuck I, / In a Cowslips bell, I lie, / There I cowch when Owles doe crie, / On the Batts backe I doe flie / after Sommer merrily. / Merrily, merrily, ſhall I liue now / Vnder the bloſſom that hangs on the Bow.
Bees are the moſt excellent of all Inſects vvhatſoever, and expreſſe both vvorth and vvonder in all their vvaies: […]
He stood across in the other garden, beside a bush of pale Michaelmas daisies, watching the last bees crawl into the hive.
Bees pollinate many of the world’s crops—a service estimated to be worth $15 billion a year in America alone.
New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs. […] “This suggests that most of the foraging that the bees do occurs very close to the hive,” study co-author Margarita López-Uribe, an associate professor of entomology at PSU, told CNN on Monday.
Use bee when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bee means A flying insect, of the clade Anthophila within the hymenopteran superfamily Apoidea, known for its organised societies (though only a minority have them), for collecting pollen and (in some species) producing wax and honey..
Common synonyms include king of insects, bee block.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
His face was belymmed as byes had him stounge[…].
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