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Meanings of honeybee in English

Portuguese
abelha de mel

Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces.

        abelha de mel

        A stinging, social, domesticated insect (Apis mellifera) kept by humans for the creation of beeswax and honey.

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                    When most people think of bees, they think of the European honeybee.
                    Wired
                    2
                    The average honeybee, ant or termite has pretty limited options in life.
                    BBC
                    3
                    Isn't nature working through us as much as through the honeybee?
                    The Guardian
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                    During this time, honeybee populations have also gone into sharp and as-yet-unexplained decline.
                    Wired
                    5
                    David Tarpy told me of the number of mates of a honeybee queen.
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                    6
                    What did the honeybee have in mind in the last sentence?
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                    The famous European honeybee Apis mellifera is just one of them.
                    BBC
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                    What's that fleshy appendage stuck to the knees of the honeybee?
                    Wired
                    9
                    Last year's prolonged winter and wet summer devastated Britain's honeybee population.
                    The Guardian
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                    Her mother hovered like a honeybee over a freshly opened peony.
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                    Here, we report highly efficient integration and expression of piggyBac-derived cassettes in the honeybee.
                    Pubmed
                    12
                    Hopefully we can reverse the continuing trend of honeybee loss.
                    The Guardian
                    13
                    For most people, a single honeybee sting merely results in localised pain and swelling.
                    BBC
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                    A lot of people think that there is just a honeybee and a bumblebee.
                    The Irish Times
                    15
                    The honeybee was correctly identified 90 percent of the time.
                    Reuters
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                    The European honeybee is by far and away the most prolific maker of honey.
                    BBC
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