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Definition of Beelike
1. resembling a bee [adj] - See also: bee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beelike
Literary usage of Beelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Ponds and Streams by William S. Furneaux (1906)
"We have spoken of this insect as beelike, but this similarity is not confined to
mere form and colouring, for, as we have just seen, the insect is ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"At the same time, she does not hold him blameless in' his beelike flitting from
flower to flower. "For though Goethe was nothing if not inconstant, ..."
3. The Bookman (1906)
"The bronze on the altar at St. Peter's they stole from the Pantheon, with beelike
energy converting all within their reach to their own purposes, and, ..."
4. Poems by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1851)
"... but pushed alone on foot (For since her horse was lost I left her mine) Across
the thicket, and less from Indian craft Than beelike instinct hi ve ward, ..."
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