bee swarm

  • 11bee — noun 1 flying insect ADJECTIVE ▪ bumble (usually bumblebee), honey, killer ▪ queen, worker ▪ angry ▪ …

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  • 12swarm — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English swearm; akin to Old High German swaram swarm and probably to Latin susurrus hum Date: before 12th century 1. a. a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a… …

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  • 13Bee — Taxobox name = Bees image width = 200px image caption = Honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) collecting pollen regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera subordo = Apocrita superfamilia = Apoidea unranked genus = Anthophila …

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  • 14Bee (mythology) — The bee, found in Ancient Near East and Aegean cultures, is believed to be the sacred insect that bridged the natural world to the underworld. Appearing in tomb decorations, Mycenaean tholos tombs were even shaped as beehives.Bee motifs are also… …

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  • 15Bee colony optimization — The bee colony optimization algorithm is inspired by the behaviour of a honey bee colony in nectar collection. This biologically inspired approach is currently being employed to solve continuous optimization problems, training neural networks,… …

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  • 16bee — noun (C) 1 a black and yellow flying insect with a round body that makes honey (1) and can sting you: a swarm of bees see also: bumblebee 2 a busy bee spoken someone who enjoys being busy or active 3 have a bee in your bonnet informal to think… …

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  • 17swarm — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun Swarm is used after these nouns: ↑locust {{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}} verb Swarm is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑bee, ↑insect …

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  • 18swarm vi — A bee keeper will sell you honey with swarm wishes …

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  • 19Bee —    First mentioned in Deut. 1:44. Swarms of bees, and the danger of their attacks, are mentioned in Ps. 118:12. Samson found a swarm of bees in the carcass of a lion he had slain (Judg. 14:8). Wild bees are described as laying up honey in woods… …

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  • 20bee gum — noun 1. chiefly South & Midland : a hollow gum tree in which wild bees hive 2. chiefly South & Midland : a beehive made from sections of a hollow tree; broadly : beehive 3. chiefly South & Midland : a tall silk hat * * * Southern and South… …

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