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QUEEN BEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does queen bee mean?
• QUEEN BEE (noun)
The noun QUEEN BEE has 1 sense:
1. fertile egg-laying female bee
Familiarity information: QUEEN BEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fertile egg-laying female bee
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("queen bee" is a kind of...):
queen (the only fertile female in a colony of social insects such as bees and ants and termites; its function is to lay eggs)
Holonyms ("queen bee" is a member of...):
Apoidea; superfamily Apoidea (bees)
Context examples
The jelly is the bee equivalent of mother’s milk: a secretion used to provide nutrition to worker and queen bee larvae.
(Discovery of RNA transfer through royal jelly could aid development of honey bee vaccines, University of Cambridge)
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