bee 
bee (bē)
noun
any of a large superfamily (Apoidea) of broad-bodied, four-winged, hairy hymenopteran insects that gather pollen and nectar, have biting as well as sucking mouthparts, and often live in organized colonies; esp., the honeybee
Etymology: ME < OE beo < IE base *bhei- > Ger biene, OPrus bitte, OIr bech
have a bee in one's bonnet
- to be obsessed with one idea
- to be not quite sane
bee (bē)
bee (bē)
noun
Naut. a piece of wood on each side of the bowsprit of a ship, used for fastening stays from the mast or foremast
Etymology: ME bei, bracelet < OE beah < bugen, to bend: see bow
bee (bē)
noun
the letter B
bee
n.
A stinging, honey-gathering insect] Social classes: queen, worker, drone (male).
Varieties include: domestic: Caucasian, Madagascar, three-banded, three-band golden, golden Caucasian, black, Italian, German, Carniolan, Africanized; wild: bumblebee, sweat bee, killer bee, carpenter bee.
A communal gathering
social, harvest home, work party, function; see party 1.
have a bee in one's bonnet*
Converse of object
- bumble: A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.
- swarm: The bees swarmed from the nest leaving the delicious honey comb behind.
Converse of subject
- pollinate: The top lip of the flower is hooded and it is pollinated by bees.
- sting: SKINNER: You're saying this man was stung by bees carrying smallpox?
Adjective modifier
- solitary: Down the garden: a solitary bee; frost in the shade.
Modifies a noun
- venom: A much more pleasant way of being able to benefit from the properties of bee venom than being stung!
- sting: Some suffer bee sting like symptoms others like me get the full works.
- hive: We have several bee hives here, which belong to the apiary.
- orchid: Each species of bee orchid is pollinated by a specific species of bee, males of which try to mate with the flower.
- bole: This bee bole is probably at least 200 years old.
- pollen: A unique fusion of fresh bee pollen and Eucalyptus honey.
Noun used with modifier
- honey: Most honey bees in Britain come from domestic hive colonies.
- mason: Wall mason bee Copyright: Neil Robinson This rare solitary bee was first described in 1828 flying around walls near Ambleside.
- queen: In the burrow the queen bee builds a few small cells from wax made in her body.
- bumble: When fully grown the larvae pupate and a few days later they emerge as the first worker Bumble bees of the year.
- carpenter: The South American Brazil nut tree is dependant on carpenter bees for its pollination.
- spelling: Or spelling bees be small but successfully market online.
Possessives
- knee: Best boss: You think your boss is the bee's knees?
Preposition: in
- hive: The bees in the hive 'd let them do it, too.
Preposition: for
- pollination: The plant emits a stench to attract decaying flesh-eating beetles, flies and sweat bees for pollination.
For Love's sake, kiss me once again, I long, and should not beg in vain, Here's none to spy, or see; Why do you doubt, or stay? I'll taste as lightly as the Bee, That doth but touch his flower, and flies away. Once more, and (faith) I will be gone: Can he that loves, ask less than one?
Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.
There in close covert by some brook, Where no profaner eye may look, Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring And such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.
The Pedigree of Honey Does not concern the Beeö A Clover, any time, to him, Is Aristocracyö
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
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