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bee |
any of the flying, hairy-bodied, and often stinging insects that live either in social networks or alone, many of which suck nectar from flowers. |
beebread |
a mixture of nectar and pollen made by bees to feed to their larvae. |
bee fly |
any of several two-winged flies that resemble bees and that feed on pollen and nectar. |
hawk moth |
any of various moths with a thick body, long, slender wings, and a long feeding tube used for sipping nectar from flowers while in flight; sphinx moth. |
honey |
a thick, sweet, yellowish or brownish fluid made from flower nectar by bees. [1/6 definitions] |
honeybee |
a bee, often kept in beehives, that makes honey from the nectar of flowers. |
nectary |
a plant organ, usu. in a flower, that secretes nectar. |
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