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Definition of Africanized honey bee
1. Noun. A strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas.
Generic synonyms: Apis Mellifera, Honeybee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Africanized Honey Bee
Literary usage of Africanized honey bee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Proceedings of the Surgeon General's Conference on Agricultural edited by Melvin L. Myers (1994)
"Stinging arthropods include bees, such as the recently arrived Africanized honey
bee; wasps, including the newly introduced German yellow jacket; ..."
2. Harmful Non-Indigenous Species in the United States (1994)
"Gomez, R., Chairman, US Department of Agriculture Interagency Technical Working
Group on the Africanized honey bee, Washington, DC, personal communication ..."
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