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APIS MELLIFERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Apis mellifera mean? 

APIS MELLIFERA (noun)
  The noun APIS MELLIFERA has 1 sense:

1. social bee often domesticated for the honey it producesplay

  Familiarity information: APIS MELLIFERA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


APIS MELLIFERA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Apis mellifera; honeybee

Hypernyms ("Apis mellifera" is a kind of...):

bee (any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Apis mellifera"):

Africanized bee; Africanized honey bee; Apis mellifera adansonii; Apis mellifera scutellata; killer bee (a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas)

black bee; German bee (dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin)

Carniolan bee (greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition)

Italian bee (yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits)

Holonyms ("Apis mellifera" is a member of...):

Apis; genus Apis (type genus of the Apidae: honeybees)


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