worker bee

English

Noun

worker bee (plural worker bees)

1. A sterile bee whose speciality is to support the hive, especially by collecting pollen

Quotations

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Translations

sterile bee

• Catalan: abella obrera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 工蜂 (zh) (gōngfēng)

• Danish: arbejdsbi c, arbejderbi c
• Dutch: werkster (nl) f, werkbij (nl) f
• Esperanto: laborabelo
• Finnish: työläinen (fi), työmehiläinen (fi)
• French: abeille ouvrière f
• German: Arbeiterin (de) f
• Irish: beach oibre f
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• Japanese: 働きバチ (hatarakibachi), 働き蜂 (はたらきばち, hatarakibachi)
• Maori: pī kaimahi
• Polish: robotnica (pl) f
• Portuguese: abelha-operária f
• Russian: рабо́чая пчела́ f (rabóčaja pčelá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ра́дилица f

  Roman: rádilica (sh) f

• Spanish: abeja obrera f