humblebee
Noun

humblebee (plural humblebees)

  1. (obsolete) A bumblebee.
    • 1595 or 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
      ''The fox, the ape, and the humble-bee,
      Were still at odds, being but three.''
    • 1800's, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Humblebee
      ''Burly, dozing humblebee,
      Where thou art is clime for me.''
    • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species
      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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