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From queen bee Middle English kyng of been ( “ queen bee ” , literally “ king of bees ” ) .
queen bee plural queen bees
A reproductive female (especially the only one) in a colony of bees.
Synonym: ( very rare ) beemother 1947 The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture , Kessinger, published 2005 , page 205 :It is generally believed that the queen bee mates only once in her lifetime.
( idiomatic , colloquial , derogatory ) important or dominant woman in an organization or situation .
1981 February 14, Peg Cruikshank, “The Warmth Shines Through”, in Gay Community News , volume 8, number 29 , page 15 :She wrote very generously to aspiring women writers, gave them good advice, took time to read their manuscripts and comments, and warmly applauded their successes. There is not a hint of the Queen Bee in the attitude toward other women writers.
2003 Extra Marital Temptations , iUniverse, page 28 :She muttered to her mother, “There's that obnoxious redhead who thought she was the Queen Bee last year when she was a senior!”
(verify (+ ) this sense?) ( figurative ) stem cell .reproductive female bee
Albanian: bletë mëmë f matkë (sq) f parëz (sq) f rrojkë f
Armenian: պարսամայր (hy) ( parsamayr ) , մեղվամայր ( meġvamayr )
Basque: erlama (eu)
Catalan: abella reina
Chechen: э̄ла ( eela )
Chinese:
Mandarin: 蜂后 (zh) ( fēnghòu ) , 蜂王 (zh) ( fēngwáng )
Czech: včelí královna f
Dutch: moer (nl) f bijenkoningin (nl) f
Erzya: мекшава ( mekšava )
Esperanto: abelreĝino (eo) , reĝinabelo (please verify ) ĉefabelino
Finnish: mehiläiskuningatar (fi) , kuningatarmehiläinen (fi)
French: reine (des abeilles) (fr) f
Galician: abella raíña (gl) , abella mestra (gl) f
German: Bienenkönigin (de) f Königin (de) f Bienenkönig m Bienenmutter f ( specialist ) Weisel (de) f or m Stockmutter (de) f
Greek: μέλισσα βασίλισσα f ( mélissa vasílissa )
Hungarian: méhkirálynő (hu)
Ido: abelino (io)
Indonesian: lebah ratu
Irish: cráinbheach f
Italian: ape regina f
Japanese: 女王蜂 (ja) ( joōbachi )
Javanese: guru tawon
Korean: 여왕벌 ( yeowangbeol )
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: شاھەنگ ( şaheng )
Northern Kurdish: şaheng (ku) f
Latin: apis rēgīnae f
Latvian: bišu māte
Macedonian: матица f ( matica )
Maori: pī huauri
Nepali: रानी मौरी ( rānī maurī )
Norman: méthe ès moûques f ( Jersey ) , péthe ès bourdons m ( Jersey ) , vielle des bourdes f ( Jersey )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: bidronning m or f
Nynorsk: bidronning f biedronning f
Old English: bēomōdor f
Persian: زنبور ملکه ( zanbur-e malake )
Polish: królowa (pl) f
Portuguese: abelha-rainha f abelha-mestra (pt) f
Romanian: regină (ro) f matcă (ro) f
Russian: ма́тка (ru) f ( mátka )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̏тица f
Roman: mȁtica (sh) f
Spanish: abeja reina f abeja maestra f
Swedish: bidrottning (sv) c
Tamil: இராணித் தேனீ (ta) ( irāṇit tēṉī )
Turkish: kraliçe arı (tr)
Vietnamese: ong chúa (vi)
Volapük: jireg bienas biejireg ( older term, obsolete )
Welsh: mamwenynen f modrydaf f
