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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Africanized Honey Bee

Africanders
Africanisation
Africanise
Africanised
Africanises
Africanising
Africanism
Africanisms
Africanist
Africanist dance
Africanists
Africanization
Africanize
Africanized
Africanized bee
Africanized honey bee
Africanizes
Africanizing
Africanness
Africans
Afrihili
Afrikaans
Afrikander
Afrikaner
Afrikanerdom
Afrikaners
Afrindian
Afro
Afro-
Afro-American

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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