humblebee
Noun
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Noun
humblebee (plural humblebees)
- (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.
- 1595 or 1596, William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost
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