BUMBLEBEE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bumblebee mean? 

• BUMBLEBEE (noun)
  The noun BUMBLEBEE has 1 sense:

1. robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

  Familiarity information: BUMBLEBEE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUMBLEBEE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

bumblebee; humblebee

Hypernyms ("bumblebee" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("bumblebee" is a member of...):

Bombus; genus Bombus (bumblebees)

 Context examples 

I was thanking my stars that I'd learned to make nice buttonholes, when the parlor door opened and shut, and someone began to hum, Kennst Du Das Land, like a big bumblebee.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)