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Definition of Drones
1. drone [v] - See also: drone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drones
Literary usage of Drones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1881)
"Though doubt is sometimes expressed as to the origin of drones by parthenogenesis,
there is no such doubt among intelligent apiarists. ..."
2. Dr. Chase's Family Physician, Farrier, Bee-keeper, and Second Receipt Book by Alvin Wood Chase (1874)
"[With seven years' additional experience, I am not inclined to change my expressed
opinion that tho drones from a mother of undoubted purity are like ..."
3. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"The office of the males or drones (fays he) is to render the queen pregnant. ...
the drones with that large quantity of feminal liquor; to what ufe fo large ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Besides these large drones, Maraldi and Reaumur long ago asserted that there ...
It is well known that the large drones never appear in the hive before the ..."
5. A Text-book of Biology for Students in General, Medical and Technical Courses by William Martin Smallwood (1918)
"drones.—These are the male bees, and it seems strange that there should have ...
The remaining drones in the colony are heavy eaters and contribute nothing ..."
6. A Practical Treatise on the Hive and Honey-bee by Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1863)
"Many of the cells will be found to contain honey and bee- bread ; and vast numbers
of eggs and immature workers and drones. A few cells of unusual size are ..."
7. The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for by Epes Sargent (1852)
"The drones of the community! they feed On the mechanic's labor; the starved hind
For them ... Whence that unnatural line of drones, who heap Toil and ..."
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