bumblebeen.

Brit.

/ˈbʌmblbiː/, U.S.

/ˈbəmbəlˌbi/

Forms: see bumble v.¹ and bee n.¹ also 1800s– bummelbee, 1900s– bomblebee.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bumble v.¹, bee n.¹

Etymology: < bumble v.¹ + bee n.¹ Compare bumble n.¹Forms reflecting various derivatives of bumble v.¹, as e.g. bumblybee, bumblerbee, are also occasionally attested in regional use.

Any of various large, social bees constituting the genus Bombus (family Apidae), primarily found in Eurasia and North and South America, which fly with a loud buzzing or humming sound, and typically have a plump, hairy body marked with broad bands of colour. Occasionally with distinguishing word. Also called bumbler, drumble-bee, dumbledore, humble-bee.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee)

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drumble drone1855

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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 460/1 I bomme, as a bombyll bee dothe.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.i How lusty & how proude we be, buzzing aboue busily like as a bumble bee flieth about in sommer.

1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 134 A nimble Squirrell or a picke-a tree, A Wesell, Vrchin, or a Bumble Bee.

1678 H. More Let. 25 May 15 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Hunting of Butter-flies and Bumble-bees.

1749 J. Upton Remarks on Three Plays of Jonson 72 The word [sc. dor] is still preserved in the western parts of England where the bumble bee is called the drumble-dor.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 129 There is a species called with us the bumble bee.

1832 New-Eng. Mag. Apr. 327 You had only slain a red-hipped bumble-bee, on the top of a thistle.

1881 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 571 A most unusual number of wasps and bumble bees.

1932 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 81 88 Bombus lapidarius (the Stone Bumble Bee) is distinguished by its black velvety coat and the bright orange tip to its abdomen.

1951 J. Neihardt When Tree Flowered (1991) xii. 87 By now it looked very bad down there in the valley, for the people were boiling out of the village like a swarm of bumblebees, and over them a roar of voices grew.

1995 M. R. Berenbaum Bugs in Syst. iv. 88 A large bumble bee colony consists of only 150 to 200 members, so there are far fewer foragers to work a field than there are from a honey bee colony.

2014 Guardian 6 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 83 Great Dixter has 11 species of bumblebee.

Compounds

bumblebee bat n. a tiny insectivorous bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (family Craseonycteridae), native to western Thailand and southeast Myanmar, having a reddish-brown or grey coat and a piglike snout.The bumblebee bat is thought to be the world's smallest mammal in terms of size, but not weight.Also called Kitti's hog-nosed bat.

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1974 J. E. Hill in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Zool. (1976) 27 316 The suiform muzzle of Craseonycteris thonglongyai has suggested (H. Elliott McClure, in litt.) the vernacular name ‘Hog-nosed bat’ for this species: it has also been described (J. T. Marshall, in litt.) as the ‘Bumble-bee bat’.

1984 Guardian 15 Nov. 7/7 In Asia, the kouprey wild ox of Kampuchea and bumblebee bat in Thailand, at two grammes the smallest mammal, have both being included in the lists as under extreme threat.

2011 T. A. Vaughan et al. Mammalogy (ed. 5) xv. 272/2 Bumblebee bats roost by day in caves and eat small arthropods that are probably gleaned from leaf surfaces.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bumblebee
释义	bumblebeen. Brit. /ˈbʌmblbiː/, U.S. /ˈbəmbəlˌbi/ Forms: see bumble v.¹ and bee n.¹ also 1800s– bummelbee, 1900s– bomblebee. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: bumble v.¹, bee n.¹ Etymology: < bumble v.¹ + bee n.¹ Compare bumble n.¹Forms reflecting various derivatives of bumble v.¹, as e.g. bumblybee, bumblerbee, are also occasionally attested in regional use. Any of various large, social bees constituting the genus Bombus (family Apidae), primarily found in Eurasia and North and South America, which fly with a loud buzzing or humming sound, and typically have a plump, hairy body marked with broad bands of colour. Occasionally with distinguishing word. Also called bumbler, drumble-bee, dumbledore, humble-bee. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > member of family Bombidae (bumble-bee) dora700 humble-beea1450 bumblebee1530 drumble bee1592 bumble1599 grumbledory1600 bumbee1605 bumbarda1614 dumbledore1787 foggie1819 bummer1822 bumbler1825 drumble drone1855 drumble-dore1881 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 460/1 I bomme, as a bombyll bee dothe. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.i How lusty & how proude we be, buzzing aboue busily like as a bumble bee flieth about in sommer. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 134 A nimble Squirrell or a picke-a tree, A Wesell, Vrchin, or a Bumble Bee. 1678 H. More Let. 25 May 15 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) Hunting of Butter-flies and Bumble-bees. 1749 J. Upton Remarks on Three Plays of Jonson 72 The word [sc. dor] is still preserved in the western parts of England where the bumble bee is called the drumble-dor. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 129 There is a species called with us the bumble bee. 1832 New-Eng. Mag. Apr. 327 You had only slain a red-hipped bumble-bee, on the top of a thistle. 1881 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 No. 3. 571 A most unusual number of wasps and bumble bees. 1932 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 81 88 Bombus lapidarius (the Stone Bumble Bee) is distinguished by its black velvety coat and the bright orange tip to its abdomen. 1951 J. Neihardt When Tree Flowered (1991) xii. 87 By now it looked very bad down there in the valley, for the people were boiling out of the village like a swarm of bumblebees, and over them a roar of voices grew. 1995 M. R. Berenbaum Bugs in Syst. iv. 88 A large bumble bee colony consists of only 150 to 200 members, so there are far fewer foragers to work a field than there are from a honey bee colony. 2014 Guardian 6 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 83 Great Dixter has 11 species of bumblebee. Compounds bumblebee bat n. a tiny insectivorous bat, Craseonycteris thonglongyai (family Craseonycteridae), native to western Thailand and southeast Myanmar, having a reddish-brown or grey coat and a piglike snout.The bumblebee bat is thought to be the world's smallest mammal in terms of size, but not weight.Also called Kitti's hog-nosed bat. ΚΠ 1974 J. E. Hill in Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.): Zool. (1976) 27 316 The suiform muzzle of Craseonycteris thonglongyai has suggested (H. Elliott McClure, in litt.) the vernacular name ‘Hog-nosed bat’ for this species: it has also been described (J. T. Marshall, in litt.) as the ‘Bumble-bee bat’. 1984 Guardian 15 Nov. 7/7 In Asia, the kouprey wild ox of Kampuchea and bumblebee bat in Thailand, at two grammes the smallest mammal, have both being included in the lists as under extreme threat. 2011 T. A. Vaughan et al. Mammalogy (ed. 5) xv. 272/2 Bumblebee bats roost by day in caves and eat small arthropods that are probably gleaned from leaf surfaces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1530
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