单词 | drone bee |
释义 | > as lemmasdrone bee 1. A male bee in a colony of honeybees or other social bees (more fully drone bee). Sometimes also: the male of a social wasp or ant.The drone is produced from an unfertilized egg. Its sole function is to fertilize a new queen.apple-drone, drumble-drone: see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [noun] > suborder Apocrita, Petiolata, or Heterophaga > group Aculeata (stinging) > superfamily Apoidea (bees) > drone droneOE dog-bee1530 humbledory1555 dronel1575 dumble bee?1577 dronet1583 siren1601 cephen1623 α. β. c1225 ( Ælfric Gloss. (Worcester) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 543/8 Fucus, dron [printed dro[n]; OE St. John's Oxf. dræn].a1400 Tractatulus de Vitiis et Virtutibus (Rawl. C. 534) f. 57v in M. Korhammer Words, Texts & MSS (1992) 470 Apo uel fucus, quod anglice dicitur drone, pinguescit de labore aliorum. [‘[Latin] apo or fucus, which is called drone in English, grows fat from the work of others.’]?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) 39v A drone, asilus, fucus.a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 52 Much lyke un to the drowne bees in a hyve.1637 T. Heywood Dial. in Wks. (1874) VI. 322 The Bee makes honey till his sting be gone, But that once lost, he soone becomes a Drone.1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i, in Poems I. 7 Some against hostile drones the hive defend.1884 All Year Round 12 Apr. 491/2 Unlike bees, the ant drones are the only members of the family endowed with wings.1992 Independent 27 Apr. 3/6 Husbandry methods..involve trapping the [mite] eggs in part of the comb where drone bees develop.2008 B. Sihastru Here comes King in J. Wechsler Look, Ma! vi. 24 The bees [allegedly] originated in a random encounter between a local queen bee and a wasp drone.OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 60 Chosdrus uel castros : beomoder. Fucus, dran. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 Swa drane doð on hiue: eall þet þa beon dragen toward, swa frett þa drane & dragað fraward; swa dide he. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. lv. 1206 Þe..drane..eteþ þat he bytrauayleþ nouȝt. For he makeþ non hony, but he eteþ þe hony of oþere been. c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 21 (MED) Dranes loue weel reste. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Biiv/1 A Drane bee, fucus. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 917 The Drone called in Latine, Fucus..in English, a Drone, a Dran. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Drane, a drone. < as lemmas |
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