单词 | dog-bee |
释义 | dog-been. 1. A male honeybee or drone. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > drone droneOE dog-bee1530 humbledory1555 dronel1575 dumble bee?1577 dronet1583 siren1601 cephen1623 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Doggebee, bourdon. 1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Dog-bee, a drone, or male bee. 1880 All Year Round 5 June 91/1 A dog-bee, for instance, is a drone—a coarse, common, inferior bee that makes no honey. 1922 M. Webb Seven for Secret xvii. 166 ‘A dog-bee, and a queen-bee, and two workers... Yo bein' the queen,’ he explained, and him the dog-bee, which is to say, the drone.’ ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > unspecified path-fly1634 toddy fly1681 dog-bee1838 1838 J. Bosworth Dict. Anglo-Saxon Lang. Hundes-beo, dog-bee, dog or horse-fly. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Dog-bee, a fly troublesome to dogs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1530 |
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