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# stingless

«stingless» in Mova's school dictionary: **having no sting or no working sting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (stingless)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Stingless means having no sting or no working sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#m1)

2) Stingless bees are small bees found in warm countries such as Australia, Brazil and Mexico that cannot sting; they make a small amount of honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons stingless bees show that not all bees sting; they protect their nests by biting or swarming instead. In Australia they are called native bees or sugarbag bees and help pollinate crops like macadamia nuts. Phrases: stingless bee, stingless nettle.

### examples

- Stingless bees buzzed around the flowers in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x1)
- In Australia, stingless bees are called sugarbag bees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x2)
- Stingless bees cannot hurt you with a sting, but they might bite a little. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x3)
- The Maya people kept stingless bees for honey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x4)
- Male bees are stingless; only females can sting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x5)
- Stingless bee honey is a bit sour and runny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x6)
- The teacher showed us a stingless bee hive in a wooden box. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stingless/#x7)

### note

«-less» means «without»: stingless = without a sting. Most stingless bees are tiny, smaller than a honeybee. Male honeybees (drones) also have no sting.

### Trees and pragmatics

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