honeybee
part of speech
noun (a honeybee, honeybees; also written honey bee)
meaning for a pupil
A bee that lives in a large group called a colony and makes honey and wax. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, honeybees are insects with six legs, wings and a body in three parts. They collect nectar and pollen from flowers, which pollinates plants so they can make fruit and seeds. A colony has one queen, many female workers and some male drones. In safety, a honeybee can sting once and then dies; stay calm and walk away. Phrases: honeybee hive, honeybee colony, worker honeybee.
examples
- Honeybees make honey from nectar. tree →
- The honeybee buzzed from flower to flower. tree →
- A hive can hold thousands of honeybees. tree →
- Honeybees help apples and berries grow. tree →
- Stay calm if a honeybee lands on you. tree →
- The queen honeybee lays the eggs. tree →
note
Written "honeybee" or "honey bee". Countable. Facts: worker honeybees are female; a honeybee usually dies after it stings, but wasps can sting many times. Safety: some people are allergic to bee stings and need help at once.
In the corpora
- Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.
- Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects.
- A honeybee queen can lay up to about two thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees feed and care for the young.
- Look closely at one honeybee and you can count six legs, four wings and five eyes.
- In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks, up to about four, to find sugar water.
Trees and pragmatics
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