| 单词 | field bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfield bee field bee n. (a) a wild bee, esp. one which lives in open countryside (now rare); †(b) spec. any of various bumblebees (genus Bombus) and mason bees (genus Osmia) (obsolete); (c) (in bee-keeping) a mature worker bee that forages for nectar (rather than working within the hive). ΚΠ eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 58 Adticus, feldbeo, dora. OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) vi. 252 To eagena beorhtnysse, wudubuccan gealla gemencged wið feldbeona hunige [L. cum melle attico] & on gesmyred, seo beorhtnys him to cymð. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xii. 1145 Some beþ feeld ben; and some beþ wode been. 1641 J. Day Parl. Bees sig. D2v A field Bee speak with me? 1769 J. Berkenhout Outl. Nat. Hist. Great Brit. & Ireland I. 168 [Apis] Rufa. Small Field Bee. 1807 Prize Ess. & Trans. Highland Soc. Scotl. 3 143 The large field bees feed on the coarser honey of the broad red clover. 1880 G. M. Doolittle in Amer. Bee Jrnl. 16 125/1 The bees..are all old, or field bees, and are wholly unfit to feed and nurse the embryo queens. 1918 D. H. Lawrence New Poems 10 As a field-bee, black and amber, breaks from the winter-cell. 2004 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 2 June a11/5 Just before the new queens emerge, the old queen will take one-fourth or one-third of the field bees and scouts to find a new home. < as lemmas |
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