| 单词 | bumblebee |
| 释义 | bumblebee (once / 10954 pages) n A bumblebee is a large, flying insect that pollenates flowers. Bumblebees are fatter and fuzzier than honeybees. They may look cute, but they can still sting you. A bumblebee is a completely different species than a honeybee, though it does make honey. Bumblebees produce honey in much smaller quantities, and it isn't harvested and eaten by people. Bumblebees also live in smaller groups, of up to four hundred bees, compared to honeybees' hives that have as many as 60,000 bees. In some places, they're called humblebees, from the Middle English humbul-be, which echoes the "hum" of a bee. WORD FAMILYbumblebee: bumblebees USAGE EXAMPLESIn the America to which you sing, friends invited you to a wedding they’d styled a bumblebee celebration: the bride Asian, the husband-to-be black. Time(Dec 23, 2016) More than a quarter of the 46 bumblebee species in North America are considered at risk. The Guardian(Dec 11, 2016) He said, that’s a hummingbird, and I said, no, it’s a bumblebee; then he felt faint and needed to lie down in a dark room. New York Times(Aug 30, 2016) n robust hairy social bee of temperate regions Syn|Hyper humblebee bee any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species |
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