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humblebee

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9 lettersPart of speech nounSorted bbeeehlmuStarts with HEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. robust hairy social bee of temperate regions

Word origin

From Middle English humbul-be, humbulbe, hombul-be, from *humbul (“bumblebee”) + be (“bee”).

Used in a sentence

  • The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-Bee, Were ſtill at oddes being but three.
  • 1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee Burly, dozing humblebee, Where thou art is clime for me.
  • Hence I have very little doubt, that if the whole genus of humble-bees became extinct or very rare in England, the heartsease and red clover would become very rare, or wholly disappear.

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