honey bee

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Etymology

From Middle English hony bee.

Noun

honey bee (plural honey bees)

1. Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.

Translations

• French: abeille à miel, abeille
• German: Honigbiene
• Italian: ape da miele, ape
• Portuguese: abelha, abelha de mel
• Russian: пчела медоносная
• Spanish: abeja, abeja melífera, abeja de miel

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