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western honey bee

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables
west-ern honey bee
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any bee of the species Apis mellifera, the most populous and widespread species of bee, native to Europe but now found nearly worldwide with numerous subspecies.

Inflected Forms

western honey bees (plural) western honeybee (alternative) western honey-bee (alternative)

Synonyms

European honey bee

Questions

What does western honey bee mean?
Any bee of the species Apis mellifera, the most populous and widespread species of bee, native to Europe but now found nearly worldwide with numerous subspecies.

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