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The only sexually mature female in a colony of honeybees.
queen
1
A good Italian
queen
bee
sells for a little over a dollar.
2
The
queen
bee
zips between them and whirls impatiently in the corridor.
3
But the swarm can sting, and will come for the
queen
bee
.
4
This, she thought, is how it must feel to be a
queen
bee
.
5
The fertility of the
queen
bee
has been much under-estimated by most writers.
6
The extraordinary fertility of the
queen
bee
has already been noticed.
7
There is the popular set, dominated by an outgoing
queen
bee
.
8
The
queen
bee
was taken away, but the hive went on.
9
While the
queen
bee
remains there may be a hive again.
10
The
queen
bee
emits pheromones, chemical messages, to her drones, her worker bees.
11
His progress was not unlike that of a
queen
bee
at swarming time.
12
Taken to the
queen
bee
,
the Big Babe of the Bourkas?
13
He was swarmed like a
queen
bee
by photographers and reporters and aides.
14
Lasker was the center of this collective, its nucleating force, its
queen
bee
.
15
She looked like she was wearing a
queen
bee
's
egg sac.
16
To be sure, there was a woman prime minister: a
queen
bee
,
no feminist.