honey bee

See also: honeybee

English

A Carniolan honey bee, Apis mellifera carnica

Alternative forms

• honeybee

Etymology

From Middle English hony bee.

Pronunciation

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Noun

honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

Hyponyms

• (species in Apis): See entry for Apis

Derived terms

• black dwarf honey bee (Apis andreniformis)
• Cape honey bee (Apis mellifera capensis)
• Carniolan honey bee (Apis mellifera carnica)
• Caucasian honey bee (Apis mellifera caucasia)
• dwarf honeybee (Apis florea)
• East African lowland honey bee (Apis mellifera scutellata)
• eastern honey bee (Apis cerana)
• European honeybee (Apis mellifera)
• giant honey bee (Apis dorsata)
• Japanese honey bee (Apis cerana japonica)
• Himalayan giant honey bee (Apis laboriosa)
• Himalayan honey bee (Apis dorsata laboriosa)
• Indonesian honey bee (Apis dorsata binghami)
• Koschevnikov's honey bee (Apis koschevnikovi)
• Maltese honey bee (Apis mellifera ruttneri)
• Philippine honey bee (Apis nigrocincta)
• red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea)
• western honeybee (Apis mellifera)
  • For more see List of Apis mellifera subspecies on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

honey bee

• Alabama: foho
• Arabic: نَحْل m (naḥl)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܕܒܫܬܐ f (dabbāštā)

• Armenian: մեղու (hy) (meġu)
• Assamese: মৌমাখি (moumakhi)
• Bashkir: бал ҡорто (bal qorto)
• Bengali: মৌমাছি (bn) (mōumachi)
• Bulgarian: медоносна пчела f (medonosna pčela)
• Catalan: abella de la mel f, abella mel·lífera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蜜蜂 (zh) (mìfēng)

• Czech: včela medonosná (cs) f
• Dutch: honingbij (nl) f, bij (nl) f, imme (nl) f
• Esperanto: mielabelo
• Finnish: hunajamehiläinen (fi), tarhamehiläinen (fi), mehiläinen (fi)
• French: abeille à miel (fr) f, abeille (fr) f
• German: Honigbiene (de) f
• Gujarati: મધમાખી f (madhmākhī)
• Hebrew: דבורת הדבש f (dvorát hadvásh)
• Hindi: मधुमक्खी (hi) f (madhumakkhī)
• Icelandic: býfluga (is) f
• Indonesian: lebah madu (id)
• Irish: beach mheala f, seileán m (wild)
• Italian: ape da miele f, ape domestica (it) f
• Japanese: 蜜蜂 (ja) (みつばち, mitsubachi)
• Korean: 꿀벌 (ko) (kkulbeol)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: مێشھەنگوین (mêşhenguyn)

  Northern Kurdish: mêşhingiv (ku)

• Malayalam: തേനീച്ച (ml) (tēnīcca)
• Manx: shellan molley m
• Marathi: मधमाशी f (madhmāśī)
• Navajo: tsísʼná
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: honningbie m or f

  Nynorsk: honningbie f

• Persian: زنبور عسل (fa) (zanbur-e 'asal)
• Polish: pszczoła (pl) f miodna (pl)
• Portuguese: abelha doméstica (pt) f, abelha de mel f
• Russian: пчела́ медоносная (pčelá medonosnaja), медоно́сная пчела́ (medonósnaja pčelá)
• Scottish Gaelic: seillean-mil m, seillean-meala m, seillean-sgip m
• Spanish: abeja (es) f, abeja melífera (es) f, abeja de miel f
• Swedish: honungsbi (sv) n
• Tagalog: pukyot
• Tajik: занбӯри асал (zanbüri asal)
• Telugu: తేనెటీగ (te) (tēneṭīga)
• Turkish: bal arısı (tr)
• Uyghur: ھەسەل ھەرىسى (hesel herisi), بال ھەرىسى (bal herisi)
• Welsh: gwenynen (cy) f, gwenynen fêl (cy) f
• Zazaki: hıng (diq) f

See also

• drone
• wax