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Definition of Bumblebee
1. Noun. Robust hairy social bee of temperate regions.
Definition of Bumblebee
1. n. A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.
Definition of Bumblebee
1. Noun. Any of several species of large bee in the genus ''Bombus''. ¹
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Definition of Bumblebee
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Medical Definition of Bumblebee
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumblebee
Literary usage of Bumblebee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Wit and Humor by Joel Chandler Harris (1907)
"The proffit don't seem to be in the hunny, nor in the bumblebee neither. They bild
their nest in the ground, or enny whare else they take a ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents, Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"THE bumblebee Teacher's Story Thou, in sunny solitudes. Rover of the underwoods,
The green silence dost replace With thy mellow, breezy bass. —EMERSON. ..."
3. Elementary Lessons in Zoology: A Guide in Studying Animal Life and Structure by James George Needham (1895)
"A half hour spent in studying the bumblebee among the flowers from which it feeds
... Watch a bumblebee on a head of red clover. See how roughly it tramples ..."
4. Life-zone Indicators in California by Harvey Monroe Hall, Marcos Sastre, William Hamilton Gibson, Joseph Grinnell (1919)
"What, then, is our mock bumblebee ? It is, in truth, no bee at all, but a rapacious
robber fly, ... reason has wonderfully disguised as a bumblebee. ..."
5. The Young and Field Literary Readers by Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field (1916)
"The bumblebee, the bumblebee, He flew away from the tulip tree; But he made a
mistake, And flew into the lake, And he never got home to his early tea. ..."
6. Folk Songs by John Williamson Palmer (1861)
"FINE bumblebee, fine bumblebee ! Where thou art is clime for me; Let them sail
for Porto Rique, Far-off heats through seas to seek, I will follow thec alone ..."