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Definition of Leaf-cutter bee
1. Noun. Bee that cuts rounded pieces from leaves and flowers to line its nest.
Generic synonyms: Bee
Group relationships: Genus Megachile, Megachile
Definition of Leaf-cutter bee
1. Noun. A bee of the family ''Megachilidae'' that cuts fragments from leaves and uses them to build its nest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leaf-cutter Bee
Literary usage of Leaf-cutter bee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"... THE leaf-cutter bee Teacher's Story NE beautiful day in late June when I was
picking some roses, ..."
2. Interesting Neighbors by Oliver Peebles Jenkins (1922)
"... ;!i'-J-^J bush which smelling One day j were looking looked a , leaf -cutter
bee. >i taken out of I: it with small , for why y the mystery ^looked some- ..."
3. A Tour Round My Garden by Alphonse Karr (1855)
"1HE CADDIS—ASPECTS OF DEATH—PLOWING WATER—DRESS—THE leaf-cutter bee. AT the bottom
of the rivulet are little morsels of reeds, little sticks of a few lines ..."
4. A Tour Round My Garden by Alphonse Karr (1855)
"... leaf-cutter bee. i AT the bottom of the rivulet are little morsels of reeds,
little sticks of a few lines in length, which have nothing left but the ..."
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