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carpenter bee

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.63 in modern English

Syllables
car-pen-ter bee
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bee of the subfamily Xylocopinae, that burrows in dead wood.

Inflected Forms

carpenter bees (plural)

Phrases

California carpenter bee eastern carpenter bee great carpenter bee small carpenter bee southern carpenter bee valley carpenter bee violet carpenter bee

Questions

What does carpenter bee mean?
A bee of the subfamily Xylocopinae, that burrows in dead wood.

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