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Meanings of queen bee in English

The only sexually mature female in a colony of honeybees.

Usage of queen bee in English
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A good Italian queen bee sells for a little over a dollar.
The new yorker
2
The queen bee zips between them and whirls impatiently in the corridor.
Black house
3
But the swarm can sting, and will come for the queen bee.
The Lion of Petra
4
This, she thought, is how it must feel to be a queen bee.
The favorites: a novel
5
The fertility of the queen bee has been much under-estimated by most writers.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual
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The extraordinary fertility of the queen bee has already been noticed.
Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee: A Bee Keeper's Manual
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There is the popular set, dominated by an outgoing queen bee.
The Irish Times
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The queen bee was taken away, but the hive went on.
The English Constitution
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While the queen bee remains there may be a hive again.
Finished
10
The queen bee emits pheromones, chemical messages, to her drones, her worker bees.
A Life in Parts
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His progress was not unlike that of a queen bee at swarming time.
Our Casualty, and Other Stories / 1918
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Taken to the queen bee, the Big Babe of the Bourkas?
Misery
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He was swarmed like a queen bee by photographers and reporters and aides.
King Rat
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Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its queen bee.
The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer
15
She looked like she was wearing a queen bee's egg sac.
Black Deutschland
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To be sure, there was a woman prime minister: a queen bee, no feminist.
The Guardian