| 单词 | house bee |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse bee house bee n. (a) a domesticated bee or honeybee; spec. Apis mellifera (now rare); (b) (in bee-keeping) a young worker bee that works in the hive (as distinguished from older worker bees, which forage for nectar). [In later use after German Hausbiene (1876 (in the passage translated in quot. 1880) or earlier).] ΚΠ 1579 G. Gilpin tr. P. van Marnix van Sant Aldegonde Bee Hiue of Romishe Church iii. 334 For the one are domesticall or house Bees. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 890 For some are domestick, or house Bees; others are wilde or wood Bees. 1839 Chinese Repository 7 485 The second sort is the house bee, which men domesticate by nourishing in hives. 1880 A. Besant tr. F. C. C. L. Büchner Mind Animals xix. 244 Just as with the nursery cells, the house bees [Ger. Haus-Bienen] have to close with wax the provision cells. 1934 R. Redfield & A. V. Rojas Chan Kom iii. 50 The house bees do not sting. 1971 H. C. Chiang in R. E. Pfadt Fund. Appl. Entomol. (ed. 2) v. 161 When field bees return with nectar, house bees will unload it. 1998 Bee Craft 80 299/2 The house bees in this box look after the queen cells as if they were their own and seal them. < as lemmas |
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