hivebee (pluralhive bees)

1. The commonhoney bee.
   • 1819, Abraham Rees,The Cyclopaedia:

     Palpi exteriores are organs noticed in the rude sketch of the proboscis of thehive bee by Swammerdam, who does not, however, speak of them.

   • 1951,The Ibis, volume93, page505:

     This unavian behaviour, which recalls that of thehive-bee in winter, is evidently an adaptation to conserve heat.

• Beehive,bee-hive,beehive

• English lemmas
• English nouns
• English countable nouns
• English multiword terms
• English terms with quotations

• Pages with entries
• Pages with 1 entry
• Quotation templates to be cleaned