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Black bee   /blæk bi/   Listen
Black bee

noun
1.
Dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin.  Synonym: German bee.






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"Black bee" Quotes from Famous Books



... he thought it was time for us to interfere and see what could be done, so we each broke off a little birch brush and swept a path through that black bee moss, and looked into the hole at the bottom of the tree, but couldn't hear anything. So we climbed up a little ways and pretty soon came to honey—bushels of it. There were no bees there except a few fat, lazy ones that couldn't sting, and were probably kings or queens or something, and ...
— Hollow Tree Nights and Days • Albert Bigelow Paine



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