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# honeybee

«honeybee» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bee that lives in a large group called a colony and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a honeybee, honeybees; also written honey bee)

### meaning for a pupil

A bee that lives in a large group called a colony and makes honey and wax. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, honeybees are insects with six legs, wings and a body in three parts. They collect nectar and pollen from flowers, which pollinates plants so they can make fruit and seeds. A colony has one queen, many female workers and some male drones. In safety, a honeybee can sting once and then dies; stay calm and walk away. Phrases: honeybee hive, honeybee colony, worker honeybee.

### examples

- Honeybees make honey from nectar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x1)
- The honeybee buzzed from flower to flower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x2)
- A hive can hold thousands of honeybees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x3)
- Honeybees help apples and berries grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x4)
- Stay calm if a honeybee lands on you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x5)
- The queen honeybee lays the eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/#x6)

### note

Written "honeybee" or "honey bee". Countable. Facts: worker honeybees are female; a honeybee usually dies after it stings, but wasps can sting many times. Safety: some people are allergic to bee stings and need help at once.

### In the corpora

- [Bumblebees warm up by shivering their flight muscles, so they can fly on cold spring mornings when honeybees cannot.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/36-insects-six-legs-ants-bees-and-wasps/17/)
- [Honeybees die after stinging people because the barbed stinger sticks in skin and tears out, but not when stinging other insects.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/188-record-breakers-the-most-venomous-and-poisonous/14/)
- [A honeybee queen can lay up to about two thousand eggs a day, and the worker bees feed and care for the young.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/218-bees-and-wasps-in-the-garden/12/)
- [Look closely at one honeybee and you can count six legs, four wings and five eyes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/344-honey-and-the-beekeepers-year/8/)
- [In tests honeybees learned to fly past a certain number of landmarks, up to about four, to find sugar water.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/388-surprising-brains-tool-using-fish-counting-bees-laughing-rats-and-clever-pigs/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «honeybee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/honeybee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.