a social four-winged insect with a hairy body and sting, often kept in a hive for the honey that it produces
any of several species of social four-winged insects often kept in hives for the honey that they produce: genus Apis
any of a large group of insects that differ from the related wasps, esp in the heavier hairier body and legs, and in sometimes having a pollen basket: superfamily Apoidea
chiefly NAmer a gathering of people for a specified purpose
an even more evil fame than attached to the … moonlight husking-bees — Harold Frederic
a sewing bee
bee in one's bonnet
an obsession about a specified subject or idea
He's got a bee in his bonnet about cleanliness
[Old English bēo]