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Meanings of bumblebee in English

Portuguese
zangão
Catalan
abellot
Spanish
jorge

Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions.

        zangão

        A flying insect of the genus Bombus.

              Usage of bumblebee in English
              1
              Scientists are not certain what caused North American bumblebee populations to crash.
              Reuters
              2
              The Fox was digging under an old tree and found a bumblebee.
              Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building...
              3
              Both had the same bumblebee-colored warnings, but their associated crates were missing.
              Hollow World
              4
              Mammals range in size from blue whales to Thailand's insect-sized bumblebee bat.
              Reuters
              5
              And neither of us mentioned that she looked like a giant bumblebee.
              Finger lickin' fifteen
              6
              Wearing new navy-and-white-striped sweater, feeling like some kind of nautical bumblebee.
              Twitter wit: brilliance in 140 characters or less
              7
              Just then a great bumblebee flew by and now the call was clear.
              The Magic Speech Flower / or Little Luke and His Animal Friends
              8
              She made me wear the bumblebee wings she had worn the previous Halloween.
              The art of racing in the rain
              9
              A bumblebee blundered by Val's head on its way to visit the morning-glories.
              Ralestone Luck
              10
              He says, Boys, a bumblebee is biggest when it's first born.
              Woodcraft
              11
              It looked like a miniature bumblebee, about the size of my little fingernail.
              The Irish Times
              12
              I couldn't leave the bumblebee to a slow and futile death.
              The Guardian
              13
              We've got many years ahead of us, my sweet bumblebee.
              Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
              14
              The buzzer was snarling like a huge bumblebee above the head of the couch.
              Tom Swift and His Electric Locomotive; Or, Two Miles a Minute on...
              15
              Sir, -I can report seeing a bumblebee at Bohernabreena Cemetery on Christmas Day.
              The Irish Times
              16
              A bumblebee flew in the open window and buzzed dangerously near the hero's head.
              The Debtor: A Novel
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