"apis mellifera" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
subtypes:
- 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
belongs to: apis, genus apis - type genus of the Apidae: honeybees

same as: honeybee