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# stinger

«stinger» in Mova's school dictionary: **the sharp part on an insect or animal, such as a bee…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a stinger, stingers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A stinger is the sharp part on an insect or animal, such as a bee, wasp or scorpion, that it uses to sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#m1)

2) A stinger can be an animal or plant that stings, like a stinging jellyfish (Australia) or a nettle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#m2)

3) (informal) A stinger is a painful hit, remark or ending, something that «stings». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature lessons, children learn that bees, wasps, scorpions and stingrays have stingers for defence. In safety lessons, you learn to scrape out a bee stinger gently and to tell an adult. In Australia, «stingers» often means box jellyfish and other stinging jellyfish in the sea in summer. Phrases: «the bee's stinger», «stinger suit», «stinger season» (Australia).

### examples

- A honeybee leaves its stinger in your skin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x1)
- Mum scraped the stinger out with a bank card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x2)
- A scorpion's stinger is at the end of its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x3)
- The stingray's stinger is on its tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x4)
- We wore stinger suits when we swam at the beach in Queensland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x5)
- The wasp waved its stinger at us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x6)
- That last goal was a real stinger for the other team. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x7)
- Only female bees and wasps have stingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x8)
- Fionn would run his best to get away from that prickly stinger, but how he would run when it was his turn to deal the strokes! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stinger/#x9)

### note

Countable. Myth: all bees die after stinging — only honeybees usually do, because their barbed stinger gets stuck; wasps and bumblebees can sting again. The word for the injury is «a sting», not «a stinger».

### In the corpora

- [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 leaves its barbed stinger in the skin and dies after stinging.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/9/)
- [A bee stinger should be scraped out quickly, because it keeps pumping venom for a short while.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/24-bees-and-wasps/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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