| 单词 | robber bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrobber bee robber bee n. Bee-keeping a honeybee that steals honey from hives other than its own (cf. sense 2). ΚΠ 1829 Gill's Technol. Repository 4 358 They can defend themselves from corsair or robber bees, with much greater ease. 1886 T. W. Cowan Brit. Bee-keeper's Guide Bk. (ed. 8) xxxii. 142 Such colonies..the bee-keeper will take care to protect against robber-bees. 1965 J. D. Carthy Behaviour of Arthropods vi. 81 Robber bees, however, fight back and the two bees buzz round on their sides as they try to sting each other. 1998 Bee Craft 80 249/2 The beekeeper had seen robber bees going in and out of the hives and assumed he still had live bees. < as lemmas |
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