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单词 mining bee
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  • Then Burl heard a shout from the direction of the mining-bee caves, and hastened toward the sound.

    The Red Dust|Murray Leinster
  • Hidden in the remnants of its egg-casings, the brood of minute things had waited near the opening of the mining-bee tunnel.

    The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster
  • It happily consumes those provisions and, in time, an oil-beetle crawls out of the tunnel a mining-bee so laboriously prepared.

    The Forgotten Planet|Murray Leinster
  • One species of mining-bee, not often found in England, chooses some very singular insects wherewith to feed its young.

    Insect Architecture|James Rennie

mining bee


noun

a solitary bee of the genera Andrena and Halictus, which sometimes resemble honey bees

Word Origin for mining bee

named from their burrowing habits

Words nearby mining bee

minimum tillage, minimum wage, minimumweight, minimus, mining, mining bee, Mining Eng., mining engineering, mining geology, mininuke, minion
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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