Definition of honeybee Honeybee

/hʌˈnibiˌ/ - [huneebee] - hon•ey•bee

We found 4 definitions of honeybee from 4 different sources.

What does honeybee mean?

Noun Plural: honeybees
honeybee - social bee often domesticated for the honey it produces
		Apis mellifera
		bee any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
		apis, genus apis type genus of the Apidae: honeybees
		africanized bee, africanized honey bee, apis mellifera adansonii, apis mellifera scutellata, killer bee a strain of bees that originated in Brazil in the 1950s as a cross between an aggressive African bee and a honeybee; retains most of the traits of the African bee; now spread as far north as Texas
		black bee, german bee dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
		carniolan bee greyish highly productive European honeybee that has a quiet disposition

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honeybee (n.)
Any bee of the genus Apis, which lives in communities and collects honey, esp. the common domesticated hive bee (Apis mellifica), the Italian bee (A. ligustica), and the Arabiab bee (A. fasciata). The two latter are by many entomologists considered only varieties of the common hive bee. Each swarm of bees consists of a large number of workers (barren females), with, ordinarily, one queen or fertile female, but in the swarming season several young queens, and a number of males or drones, are produced.