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bumblebee
(bʌmbəlbiː) also bumble bee
Word forms: plural bumblebees
countable noun
A bumblebee is a large hairy bee.
bumblebee in British English
(ˈbʌmbəlˌbiː) or humblebee
noun
any large hairy social bee of the genus Bombus and related genera, of temperate regions: family Apidae
Word origin
C16: from bumble2 + bee1bumblebee in American English
(ˈbʌmbəlˌbi)
noun
any of a number of related large, hairy, yellow-and-black social bees (esp. genus Bombus)
Word origin
altered (by assoc. with ME bomblen, var. of bomben, to boom, buzz, of echoic orig.) < ME humbul-be < humbil, bumblebee (akin to Ger hummel < IE base *kem-, to hum, of echoic orig.) + be, bee1Image ofbumblebee
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British English: bumblebee /ˈbʌmblˌbiː/ NOUN
A bumblebee is a large hairy bee.
- American English: bumblebee
- Arabic: نَحْلَة ضَخْمَة
- Brazilian Portuguese: abelhão
- Chinese: 大蜜蜂
- Croatian: bumbar
- Czech: čmelák
- Danish: humlebi
- Dutch: hommel
- European Spanish: abejorro
- Finnish: kimalainen
- French: bourdon
- German: Hummel
- Greek: μπούμπουρας
- Italian: bombo
- Japanese: マルハナバチ
- Korean: 호박벌
- Norwegian: humle
- Polish: trzmiel
- European Portuguese: abelhão
- Romanian: bondar
- Russian: шмель
- Latin American Spanish: abejorro
- Swedish: humla
- Thai: ผึ้งมีขนตัวใหญ่
- Turkish: hezen arısı
- Ukrainian: джміль
- Vietnamese: ong nghệ
Chinese translation of 'bumblebee'
bumblebee
(ˈbʌmblbiː)
n (c)
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大黄(黃)蜂
(dàhuángfēng) (只, zhī)