colony collapse disorder
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.72 in modern English
33
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "As many as a quarter of the nation's commercially kept bees went missing last year, presumed dead, in a phenomenon now called colony collapse disorder."
- "Interaction among multiple pathogens and parasites is the proposed cause for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a syndrome characterized by worker bees abandoning the hive. Here we provide the first documentation that the phorid fly Apocephalus borealis, previously known to parasitize bumble bees, also infects and eventually kills honey bees and may pose an emerging threat to North American apiculture."