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africanized bee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.88 in modern English

Syllables
african-ized bee
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis), and known for being defensive and aggressive.

Inflected Forms

Africanized bees (plural)

Synonyms

Africanized honey bee killer bee apis mellifera scutellata apis mellifera adansonii

Questions

What does africanized bee mean?
A hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis), and known for being defensive and aggressive.

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