carpenter bee

English

carpenter bee emerging from burrow

Noun

carpenter bee (plural carpenter bees)

1. A bee of the genus Xylocopa, that burrows in dead wood.

Derived terms

• small carpenter bee ()
• violet carpenter bee ()

Translations

Xylocopa

• Catalan: abella de la fusta f
• Dutch: houtbij
• Finnish: rautamehiläinen
• French: abeille charpentière (fr) f
• German: Holzbiene f
• Italian: api carpentiere f
• Korean: 호박벌 (hobakbeol)
• Malay: lebah kayu
• Navajo: tsísʼnátsoh diłhiłígíí
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• Russian: пчела́-пло́тник (ru) f (pčelá-plótnik), ксилоко́па f (ksilokópa), древогнёзд m (drevognjózd)
• Shona: zingizi
• Spanish: abeja carpintera f
• Sundanese: bangbara
• Telugu: భ్రమరము (te) (bhramaramu)
• Thai: แมลงภู่
• Vietnamese: ong bầu (vi)
• Welsh: gwenynen goedysol f

References

• carpenter bee on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Xylocopa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Xylocopa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons