apis mellifera
Noun
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Social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces (synset 102210932)
hypernym: bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary specieshyponym:
- africanized bee, africanized honey bee, apis mellifera adansonii, apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee - a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
- black bee, german bee - dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
- carniolan bee - greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition
- italian bee - yellowish honeybee resembling the Carniolan bee in its habits
member meronym: apis, genus apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybeessynonym: honeybee
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